Presenter
Poet and Kennedy Center Teaching Artist Glenis Redmond will discuss her work in creating inspiring and transformative literature for young people and encourage a “brave space” for critical conversations about inequities and injustices. She will also be sharing poems from her newest book, “The Three Harriets and Others,” which will be released in early 2022.
Glenis Redmond:
- Poet
- Teaching Artist
- Imagination Activist
Glenis Redmond is an award-winning poet and teaching artist from South Carolina. She travels nationally and internationally performing and conducting poetry workshops and has been a literary community leader for 28 years. Glenis is also a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist in Washington, D.C., and a Cave Canem alumni. She has been the mentor poet for the National Student Poets Program since 2014. In the past she prepared these exceptional youth poets to read at the Library of Congress, the Department of Education, and for First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House.
In 2020 Glenis was awarded South Carolina’s highest award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts through the South Carolina Arts Commission. She will be inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in Spring 2022.
Glenis is a North Carolina Literary Fellowship Recipient and helped to create the first Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, N.C. Her work has been showcased on NPR and PBS and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, The New York Times, The North Carolina Literary Review, Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, StorySouth, About Place and Carolina Muse.
Date and Time
Monday, March 28th, 7:00pm
Location
Watkins Room, Trone Center
Sponsors
Co-sponsored by the Education, English, Communication Studies, and Theatre Arts Departments, the Library, and the Center for Inclusive Communities.
Beyond This February Bookstore
Tamika Thompson, Greenville native and owner of Beyond This February bookstore, will be in the lobby with books for adults and children.