Literacy Luncheon -- Wednesday, 11:45 a.m. -1:15 p.m., October 17, 2007
Glenis
Redmond
Glenis
Redmond's love of words has carried her across the country for
thirteen years. She logs over 35,000 miles a year bringing poetry
to the masses. This Road Warrior Poet though steeped in Afro-Carolininan
roots, speaks a universal tongue of love, loss, celebration, sorrow
and hope. Her verse uplifts family, culture and community. Glenis
is a gentle pen pusher as she encourages others at diverse venues
across the country from prisons, universities, festivals, conferences,
camps, keynotes, rallies, to schools. She is a 2005-2006 NC Literary
Award recipient and a Denny C. Plattner Award winner for Outstanding
Poetry awarded by the Journal, Appalachian Heritage. She has been
inducted in the Mt. Xpress' Hall of Fame for Best Poet in Western
North Carolina after winning for over seven years. She is a Workshop
Leader with the Kennedy Center's Partnership in Education Program
in Washington, D.C. Glenis' work has aired on National Public Radio.
She is a past winner of the Southern Fried Poetry Slam and a top
ten finalist in the National Poetry Slam.
She has been published most recently in Meridians, African Voices,
EMRYS, Asheville Poetry Review, 2006 Kakalak: A Journal of Carolina
Poets, Appalachian Heritage and the Appalachian Journal. Her manuscript
Under The Sun was short listed by Autumn House Press. Her poems
soothe, illicit and inspire others to pick up their pen and travel
their own poetic road.
-- More on Glenis Redmond at: www.Glenisredmond.com