North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and Brenda Kay Ledford.
I attended the Multicultural Women's Conference at Hinton Rural Life Center in Hayesville, NC on April 19-20, 2024. The keynote speaker on Friday was North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green. She gave a marvelous speech encouraging women to "Rise Up to the Power of Stories." She said we all have a story to tell and highlighted the achievements of blacks in America.
I enjoyed meeting Jaki and consider her to be one of the finest living poets today. If you have not read her poetry, her books are available on Amazon.com. You may also hear her giving a poetry reading on Youtube.com.
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The conference was so fortunate to welcome the North Carolina Poet Laureate to their meetings. Many of your bloggers may not realize what a big state North Carolina is. It was a big deal to have Poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green. She could have put on the brakes when she reached the rugged mountains, but she chose to travel on to see the beauty of it all, and to fall in love with the charming people of the scenic Western North Carolina. BVLW
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