Please join me as I partner with the Metropolitan Arts Council for our 3rd Visual & Verse. We have paired 15 visual artists with 15 poets. This year’s theme is Within. What does within mean? It could be a physical or emotional locator. Is it referring to an internal landscape or an outer landscape—or both? The beauty […]

Presenting at the Read Freely Festival. Panel with other  poets: Jo Angela Edwins, Cassie Premo and Marlanda Dekine.

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 […]

I will deliver a keynote address inspired by my South Carolina State Park Journey with Julian, my grandson. This is a private event.