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DocuSign Envelope ID:91E71F2D-9A8E-41EB-A333-428A1042BC15 <br /> Phillip Shabazz <br /> PO Box 16575 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 <br /> pshabazz@gmail.com • www.flamesinthefireps.com <br /> Poet, author, and educator, Phillip Shabazz has cross-furictional expertise in poetry, fiction, and <br /> nonfiction. More than twenty years of teaching experience with elementary,teenage, college level <br /> students, and adults, he has a proven track record. He combines strong communication skills with <br /> artistic sensitivity to positively contribute to a classroom, workshop, and seminar audience. His <br /> work explores issues of community and culture in America, and has been acclaimed by the media <br /> and critics across North Carolina. His writing expresses diverse points of view, from poems and <br /> stories about family and friends challenged by the complexities of life,to narratives that celebrate <br /> human possibilities. <br /> Books In Print <br /> •Y, •Freestyle and Visitation:poems, 1997 •XYZoom:poems, 2004 <br /> 4,7/ ; • When the Grass Was Blue: A Novel in Verse, 2007 <br /> ifr <br /> , ' •Flames in the Fire:poems, 2013 <br /> ; • Two forthcoming books: 2017,Lucky: Poems &Prose for Young Hearts, <br /> loto and Holding Space: A Memoir <br /> , <br /> 01111 II <br /> It' His poetry has been included in the anthologies,Literary Trails <br /> ' 1001 of the Arorth Carolina Piedmont:A Guidebook, and Home Is Where: <br /> African-American Poetry from the Carolinas. Some of the journals <br /> "*fri his poems have appeared in include The American Voice, Obsidian, <br /> and The Louisville Review. <br /> Teaching Artist <br /> In 1997, Shabazz became Duke University's third Artist-in-Residence at the Mary Lou Williams <br /> Center for Black Culture. During his four-year residency, (1997-2001)he organized both a student <br /> art collective, and a twice monthly speaker's series which presented local and nationally known <br /> poets and writers.Prior to this time period,he was on the artist roster with the Durham Arts Council <br /> and the NC Arts Council from 1994 to 1997. <br /> Currently he conducts creative writing seminars workshops across his home state of North <br /> Carolina, and has taught at over 400 schools, conferences, and community centers. He has also <br /> been a visiting writer at many colleges and universities including UNC-Chapel Hill, Elon, <br /> Winthrop, Warren Wilson, and the Writers Series at Appalachian State. <br /> Shabazz lives in Chapel Hill,NC, and continues to reach approximately 12,000 people annually <br /> through his work as a poet,teacher, and writer at the grassroots and in the community at-large. <br />