Fri, May 12
|Charleston Library Society
The May Forum with Glenis Redmond + Seminar! (In-Person and On Zoom)
The May forum is our annual business meeting, during which we announce contest winners, elect officers, and enjoy hearing from a guest poet/moderator. Glenis Redmond is a performance poet, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni, and author. Zoom links in About the Event!
Time & Location
May 12, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Guests
About the event
New books out now: Listening Skin (Four Way Books) and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, Art by Jonathan Green. She is presently working on a seventh collection, Port Cities: Portals of the Second (Domestic) Middle Passage.
In 2020 Glenis received the highest arts award in South Carolina, the Governor’s Award. She was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in April.
Glenis was born on Shaw AFB in Sumter, South Carolina. She presently resides in Greenville, South Carolina. She was the founder of the Greenville Poetry Slam. She confesses she is Bi-Carolinian as she lived in Asheville, North Carolina for seventeen years and was a vital leader in the poetry scene in the 90’s. During that time, she was a Southern Fried Slam champion of the individuals twice and ranked twice in the top ten at the National Slam. Glenis was awarded the WNC Best Poet through the Mountain Xpress so many times, she was placed in the Hall of Fame. She received her MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College while touring full-time as a poet and mother-of-twins, Amber, and Celeste Sherer. She is now a Gaga to two grandchildren Julian, age 7 and Paisley age 1. She has another grand on the way.
Glenis is a North Carolina Literary Fellowship recipient and helped to create the first Writer-in-Residence program at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
Glenis has spent almost three decades touring the country as a poet and teaching artist. She served as the Poet-in-Resident for the Peace Center in Greenville and the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ. As a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, for seventeen years, Glenis has created and facilitated poetry workshops for school districts across the country.
Since 2014, she has served as the mentor poet for the National Student Poets Program through Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In the past she has prepared these exceptional youth poets to read at the Library of Congress, the Department of Education, and for First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House.
Her poetry has been showcased on NPR and PBS and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, storySouth and The New York Times, as well as numerous literary journals nationally and internationally. Glenis believes poetry is the mouth that speaks when all other mouths are silent.
Zoom link for Friday's reading only (open to the public):
Poetry Society of South Carolina is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Glenis Redmond Reading
Time: May 12, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Saturday Seminar (In-person fee, $10 for members; $15 for non-members; students attend free).
Zoom attendance is free (observation only); participation is at the guest poet's discretion.
Poetry Society of South Carolina is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Glenis Redmond Seminar
Time: May 13, 2023 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Seminar Topic: The Power of Repetition
In this workshop Glenis Redmond demonstrates how repetition builds rhythm. She will walk participants through poems, activities and exercises that will help them create palpable incantatory poetry. Come write and read. Come stand in your power.
Schedule
1 hour 30 minutesSaturday Seminar
CLS