In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are inviting North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green to Downtown Fayetteville to take part in Arts in Motion on Friday April 28 at 7pm on our District Trolley. The trolley will pick you up at the Gaston Taproom located at 421 Chicago Drive.
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. 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. Jaki is the owner of SistaWRITE providing writing retreats for women writers. Additionally, she has been recognized on the Forbes Magazine 50 Over 50 Lifestyle List for 2022.