A Special Afternoon of Poetry with Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate
Schedule
Sun Mar 15 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Bakhita Arts, 902 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC, United States, South Carolina 29730 | Rock Hill, SC
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SAVE THE DATE!Afternoon of Poetry & Prose and Bakhita Arts are thrilled to welcome North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green for a special event reading!
Details will be announced in the months to come, but in the meantime, we hope you'll acquaint yourself with this special guest:
Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina appointed in 2018, is the first
African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate and
reappointed in 2021 for a second term by Governor Roy Cooper. 2019 Jaki Shelton Green
received the North Carolina Humanities Council Caldwell Award and was recognized as a 2019
Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow. In 2014 she was inducted into the NC Literary Hall
of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2003 recipient of the North
Carolina Award for Literature. Jaki Shelton Green recently retired from teaching Documentary
Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and 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, The Communion of White Dresses published
by Jacar Press, i want to undie you English /Italian bilingual edition published by Lebeg
Publishers. Juneteenth 2020, she released her first LP, poetry album, The River Speaks of Thirst,
produced by Soul City Sounds and Clearly Records and released a CD, i want to undie you in
2021.
Jaki Shelton Green is the owner of SistaWRITE providing writing retreats for women writers in
Sedona Arizona, Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts, Ocracoke North Carolina, Northern
Morocco, The Loire Valley France, and Ireland. In 2021, The Arts Club of Chicago premiered a
commissioned body of work in collaboration with Flutronix for the Black Is Series and was
performed in April 2022 by Flutronix and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She serves as the
poetry editor for WALTER Magazine and an appointment as the Poet Laureate in Residence at
the North Carolina Museum of Art. Additionally, she has been recognized on the Forbes
Magazine 50 Over 50 Lifestyle List for 2022.
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