NC Poet Jaki Shelton Green Reads at Christ School

North Carolina poet Jaki Shelton Green will give a reading in Pingree Auditorium on Sunday, January 17 as part of Christ School’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Week activities.  Green is the author of Breath of the Song: New and Selected Poems (2005), singing a tree into dance (2003), Conjure Blues: Poems (1996), Swiss Time (1990), Dead on Arrival (1983), and Mask (1981). She was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014 and served as the North Carolina Piedmont Laureate in 2009.  Green is the recipient of several awards for poetic achievement, among them the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2003 – the most prestigious award offered by the state for accomplishments in science, literature, fine arts, and public service.

She has conducted poetry workshops and given readings throughout the US, Europe, the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and South America.  Currently, Green serves as the writer-in-residence at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

If you are interested in being a guest at the reading, please contact Brent Kaneft.