Jaki Shelton Green
Jaki Shelton Green is an American poet. In November 2009, she was named the first Piedmont Laureate by a collection of Triangle-area arts councils.[1][2]
In 2003, the North Carolina Award for Literature was bestowed on Green for "outstanding performance (and achievement) in literature."[2][3] Jaki was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014. Jaki Shelton Green was recognized and appointed to be the 9th North Carolina Poet Laureate in June 2018 and is North Carolina's first African American to receive this recognition. Green teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University within the Center for Documentary Studies.
See also
- Zelda Lockhart - 2010 Piedmont Laureate
- Piedmont (United States) - Geographical area from which the award/position of Piedmont Laureate gets its name
References
- ↑ "Past Laureates". Piedmont Laureate. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- 1 2 "Metro Magazine: Books". December 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ↑ "Biography". Piedmont Laureate. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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