Conversations with Storytellers - Glenis Redmond

Glenis Redmond is a Road Warrior Poet with two posts as Poet-in-Residence at The Peace Center for the Performing Arts in Greenville, SC and the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ. She has been a teaching artist for 26 years and is on the Kennedy Center's National Roster.

Glenis serves as the Mentor Poet for the National Student Poets Program. In 2014-2016 she prepared student poets to read at the Library of Congress, the Department of Education and for the First Lady, Michelle Obama at the White House. In 2016 she was a semi-finalist judge for the Poetry Out Loud competition.

She helped create the first Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, NC. Glenis is a Cave Canem Fellow and a North Carolina Literary Fellowship Recipient. As a full-time road poet performing and teaching poetry across the country, Glenis believes that poetry is a healer. She can be found across America in the trenches applying pressure to those in need, one poem at a time.

Tickets are $10 for community members, $7 for seniors 65+, and $5 for students. Children 12 and under may attend free of charge. Tickets may be purchased in advance and can be purchased at the door of each performance. Refreshments are available for purchase.

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