Jaki Shelton Green

Workshop: begins at 2:00 PM

Reading: begins at 4:00 PM

All events are free and open to the public, with RSVP appreciated. Writers of all levels are welcome to attend the workshop, the reading, or both. The reading is open to all poetry lovers.

Workshop Overview:

North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green will facilitate a creativity salon focused on What We Keep Keeps Us: Exploring Our Human Museums (using primary sources for an exploration of documentary poetry). As we think of ourselves as our own personal curators or anthropologists, we will explore what's in our human museums and how these primary sources or what we keep shape our lives, our values, and our creativity.

Workshop participants are invited to bring artifacts, photos, heirlooms, recipes, diaries, documents, or stories that hold special meaning for them that will serve as the prompts for the writing exercise and discussion that examines the many narratives, short stories, poems, memoirs, novels, and legacies that are hidden…