Regional Workshop Reading|Greenville: "Tragedy" with Glenis Redmond
Schedule
Tue May 14 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Upstate Circle of Friends | Greenville, SC
About this Event
Join Glenis Redmond's final Cave Canem Fall Workshop session, for a reading from students and Glenis Redmond's herself.
This poetry workshop addresses medical crises. Redmond draws on inspiration from Lucille Clifton's succinct poetry and her use of dates as anchors to face the unutterable. She guides others to follow Clifton's map of time-stamped poems, while encouraging participants to use dreams, memories, and imagery to navigate their health traumas. Glenis, a Multiple Myeloma survivor, encourages all to face their shadows—the shadows that haunt and emerge stronger with a trembling bright belief of a stronger self on the other side.
Reception with light refreshments at 6:30pm (ET)
Glenis Redmond is the First Poet Laureate of Greenville, South Carolina. She has published six books of poetry. Her two latest books are The Listening Skin (Four Way Books), and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter (University of Georgia Press). Glenis received the highest arts award in South Carolina, the Governor’s Award and inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2022. The Listening Skin was shortlisted for the Open Pen America Award and the Julie Suk award. Glenis has performed and nationally and internationally
From Hawaii to Haiti. She has toured in England and for the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) US Glenis Redmond has presented in Muscat, Oman in 2016 and presented for students in Guatemala and El Salvador regarding Juneteenth in 2023. Glenis is a mother of twin daughters Amber and Celeste. She is a Grandmother (Gaga) to Julian (Seidon), Paisley and Quinn. Glenis believes poetry is the mouth that speaks when all other mouths are silent.
Access Notes:
- Wheelchair accessible venue
- Virtual live-stream available
- ASL interpreter provided (in-person and live-stream)
- Internet Live Captioning Services provided (in-person and live-stream)
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This program is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation and is also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
Cave Canem is grateful to its community of institutional supporters and individual donors, listed on our website, .
Where is it happening?
Upstate Circle of Friends, 29 Ridgeway Drive, Greenville, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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