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• Maya Angelou

  Poems

  Angelou, Maya

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• Light at the Seam

  Poems

  Bathanti, Joseph,

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  Bathanti currently lives in Vilas, NC and teaches at Appalachian State University.

• As If It Were

  Poems

  Chappell, Fred, 1936-2024,

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  Chappell was appointed as the 4th North Carolina Poet Laureate in 1997. He taught at UNC Greensboro and also writes science fiction.

• Rocket Fantastic

  Poems

  Calvocoressi, Gabrielle,

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• Black Mama Advice - by Terrence Foushee

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  A poem by Terrence Foushee that he read at Peace and Justice Plaza during the James Cates Community Remembrance Walk. His mother is a James Cates cousin.

• Cortland Gilliam - Chapel Hill's Poet Laureate

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• Jaki Shelton Green

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  aka Shelton Green is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. When he appointed her in 2018, Governor Cooper stated that “Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state’s diverse…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breath of the Song

  New and Selected Poems

  Green, Jaki Shelton, 1953-

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• All the Songs We Sing

  Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective

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• Destiny Hemphill

  View on frontierpoetry.com

  Destiny Hemphill is a poet and healer based in Durham, NC.

• The Black Bard of North Carolina

  George Moses Horton and His Poetry

  Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880

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• Poetry and the Age

  Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965

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• Fred Joiner

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  Fred Joiner is a poet and curator based in Chapel Hill, NC. He is the current Carrboro Poet Laureate.

• We Were Once Here

  McFee, Michael

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• The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat

  Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets

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• Poems

  New and Selected

  Rash, Ron, 1953-

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• The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

  Revised and Expanded Edition

  Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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  Originally from Illinois, Sandburg moved to Flat Rock, NC in 1945.

• Kane Smego - Excerpt from Temples of Lung and Air

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  Excerpt from Kane Smego's one-man show "Temples of Lung and Air" that premiered at Playmakers Repertory Company in 2018, and went on to feature in 2019 at the United Solo Festival in NYC and the Detroit Public Theatre. The show returned to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• CJ Suitt

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  CJ Suitt (he/him/they/them) is a performance poet, arts educator, and community organizer from Chapel Hill, N.C., whose work is rooted in storytelling and social justice. He is the current Chapel Hill Poet Laureate.

• Hanna Watson - Spoken Word performance

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  Hanna Watson is a UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduate student and spoken word artist. She delivers poignant pieces of poetry on the TEDxUNC stage.