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The Black Mountain Library will be hosting a reading and conversation with Jaki Shelton Green, Poet Laureate of North Carolina on Oct. 3 at 6 p.m.
Jaki Shelton Green is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. When he appointed her in 2018, Governor Cooper stated that “Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state’s diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki’s appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina’s rich literary history.”
Born in Alamance County and raised in Orange County, Ms. Green has written books of poetry, co-edited poetry anthologies, and authored a play. Green won the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2013 and was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014. Ms. Green teaches Documentary Poetry at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
This event is free and everyone is invited. Ms. Green will be signing and selling copies of her work after the reading.