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Special Presentation — Jaki Shelton Green <br /> Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina is the first African American <br /> and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. She is a 2019 <br /> Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, <br /> 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award <br /> for Literature. Jaki Shelton Green teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University <br /> Center for Documentary Studies and has been named the 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer <br /> in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill. Her publications include: Dead on Arrival, Masks, <br /> Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the <br /> song, Feeding the Light, i want to undie you. On Juneteenth 2020, she released her first <br /> LP, poetry album, The River Speaks of Thirst, produced by Soul City Sounds and <br /> Clearly Records. Jaki Shelton Green is the owner of SistaWRITE providing writing <br /> retreats for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Martha's Vineyard, Ocracoke North <br /> Carolina, Northern Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland. <br />