Jaki Shelton Green
Jaki Shelton Green reading from Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" at an event in 2012
Jaki Shelton Green is an American poet. In November 2008, she was named the first Piedmont Laureate by a collection of Triangle-area arts councils.[1][2]
In 2003, Green won the North Carolina Award for Literature.[2][3] Jaki was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014.
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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