Glenis Redmond is Greenville’s Inaugural Poet Laureate, a Cave Canem and a Baldwin Arts Fellow. She’s published eight books including, The Listening Skin and Over Yonder: A Poet’s Exploration of South Carolina State Parks.
Come explore Lucille Clifton’s art of poetic compression alongside Glenis Redmond’s Afro-Carolina Quilt Stitch. Through close reading, guided exercises, and generative drafting, participants distill language, lineage, and craft powerful poems that bring memory and testimony forward.
Poet Teaching Artist