An Evening of Poetry with Glenis Redmond

Sponsored by the Beaufort County Arts Council, Ocracoke Alive, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Evening of Poetry is a free event at Deepwater Theater. It will begin at 8pm.

Glenis Redmond is a 2005-2006 NC Literary Award recipient and a Denny C. Plattner Award winner for Outstanding Poetry awarded by the Journal, Appalachian Heritage. She has been inducted in the Mt. Xpress’ Hall of Fame for Best Poet in Western North Carolina after winning for over a decade.

She is a Workshop Leader with the Kennedy Center’s Partnership in Education Program in Washington, D.C. Glenis’ work has aired on National Public Radio. She is a past winner of the Southern Fried Poetry Slam twice and a top ten finalist in the National Poetry Slam.

She will also visit Ocracoke School on Friday morning and perform for the students.