Saturday, June 29

11am-2pm

Juneteenth Poetry Workshop with Jaki Shelton Green

Reception Hall; Registration required

Suggested donation: $5

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CAM in collaboration with The Juneteenth Committee of Wilmington is proud to welcome NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green.  Her poem, "this I know for sure", is a tribute to Juneteenth and the arduous road to freedom.

Jacki will lead a poetry workshop for the community to create a collaborative Juneteenth poem that celebrates Wilmington.  All ages are welcome and families are encouraged to come together!  Local poets will be on hand to assist everyone's creativity.

Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. She is a 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature. Jaki Shelton Green teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and was appointed the 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill. Additionally, she received the George School Outstanding Alumni Award in 2021. Her publications include: Dead on Arrival, Masks, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the song, published by Blair Publishers. Feeding the Light, i want to undie you published by Jacar Press, i want to undie you English /Italian bilingual edition published by Lebeg Publishers. On Juneteenth 2020, she released her first LP, poetry album, The River Speaks of Thirst, produced by Soul City Sounds and Clearly Records. Jaki Shelton Green is the owner of SistaWRITE providing writing retreats for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Martha’s Vineyard, Ocracoke North Carolina, Northern Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland.