North Carolina's Poet Laureate Jacki Shelton Green to Share Poetry at Rockingham Community College

Jacki Shelton Green, North Carolina's poet laureate, will visit Rockingham Community College on Tuesday, April 9 at 1 p.m. She will share her poetry and discuss her writing process. The event will be held in the Gerald James Library. Green became the first African-American and third woman to be appointed as the poet laureate in 2018 by Governor Roy Cooper. She was reappointed in 2021.

Green has received several awards, including the 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, a 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, a 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, and a 2003 North Carolina Award for Literature. She teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and was the 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill.

Green has published several works through Blair Publishers and Jacar Press. Her first poetry album, 'The River Speaks of Thirst,' was released in June 2020. She released another CD in 2021.

Green also owns SistaWRITE, a company that organizes writing retreats for women. In 2021, The Arts Club of Chicago premiered a work she collaborated on for the “Black Is Series”. It was performed in April 2022 by Flutronix and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

Green's work has been widely recognized. She is the poetry editor for WALTER Magazine and was the Poet Laureate in Residence at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2022. She was also listed on the Forbes Magazine “50 Over 50 Lifestyle List” for 2022.

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