Responsable : Audra Bullard

Description :

Join acclaimed poet Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s Poet Laureate and
internationally respected literary voice, for a deeply reflective creativity salon centered on the excavation of our human museums - the lived experiences, memories, and inner landscapes that shape who we are and how we create. Green’s work bridges the personal and the communal, inviting participants to explore how creativity and identity emerge from our deepest interior spaces and shared stories. In a world increasingly influenced by technology, this salon asks: How do we conflate or extrapolate the public and private spheres of creativity, intimacy, spirituality, masks, dreams, veils, and spells? Drawing on her profound practice in poetry, narrative, and documentary inquiry, Green will guide participants in considering body-centered knowing—the wisdom embedded in presence, breath, sensation, and embodied experience. Together, we will explore how we move beyond conventional walls into mysterious forests of imagination; what internalized perspectives we choose to explore around the self and cultural assumptions. The salon will explore how language, voice, and creative expression can be reclaimed and shaped by lived experience rather than inherited limitations. Through dialogue, reflection, and poetic inquiry, participants will be invited to deepen their creative practice and embrace the alchemy of self and collective transformation.

 

Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina, is the first African-American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. She is a 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointee, and 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature. She teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and was appointed 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,” published by Jacar Press, and “i want to undie you,” English/Italian bilingual edition published by Lebeg Publishers. On Juneteenth 2020, she released her first LP poetry album, “The River Speaks of Thirst,” produced by Soul City Sounds and Clearly Records. She is the owner of SistaWRITE, providing writing retreats for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Martha’s Vineyard, Ocracoke North Carolina, Northern Morocco, and Tullamore, Ireland. She serves as the poetry editor for WALTER Magazine and is the Poet Laureate in
Residence at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Notes : Cancellation Policy (Please Read) Please let us know immediately if you are unable to attend a class. There is no refund for cancellations within two (2) weeks prior to a scheduled class. Programs that include food, beverage or art materials must be canceled within three (3) weeks prior in order to receive a refund. CLE reserves the right to cancel a program if the minimum enrollment has not been met or for circumstances beyond our control, and participants will be notified, a complete refund will be issued. All classes are held in the CLE Lecture Hall at the Peggy Crosby Center unless otherwise noted. In the event information has changed from the published brochure, it will be posted on our website and in our e-blasts. Addresses for “private home” venues will be provided to registrants within 2 days of the program date.

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