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Friday Free Write with Glenis Redmond
Less is More
I write longish poems, but I like to mix-up my process up to rattle myself from my own poetic routines. In this workshop we will look at compression while examining two poets: Lucille Clifton and David Drake. Every poem Lucille Clifton wrote was a master class in compression. David Drake, an enslaved poet-potter who incised his pots with couplets, his poetry is both aspirational and inspirational. I will lead a lively discussion and give prompts to participants. Together we will discover how less can be more.
Glenis Redmond is the First Poet Laureate of Greenville, South Carolina. She is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. Glenis received the highest arts award in South Carolina, the Governor’s Award and was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She has authored six books of poetry: Backbone (Underground Epics, 2000), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag, 2002), and What My Hand Say (Press 53, 2016), Listening Skin (Four Way Books), Three Harriets & Others (Finishing Line Press), and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, Art by Jonathan Green, and Poetry by Glenis Redmond (University of Georgia Press). She received her MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College while touring full-time as a poet and mother-of-twins, Amber, and Celeste Sherer. Glenis is a Gaga to three grandchildren Julian, age 7 and Paisley age 1 and newborn, Quinn. Glenis believes poetry is the mouth that speaks when all other mouths are silent. You can find her in the Poetry Field, applying pressure to those in need one poem at a time. She is a fierce medical advocate for herself, family, and others.