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Jaki Shelton Green


 Jaki Shelton Green

Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina appointed in 2018, is the first African American and third woman to be appointed. Some of her recognitions include 2022 Forbes Magazine 50 Over 50 Lifestyle List, 2021 UNC Chapel Hill Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence, 2019 NC Humanities Council Caldwell Award, 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 Induction into NC Literary Hall of Fame, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2003 NC Award for Literature recipient. She is the author of ten collections of poetry, cd's, and a vinyl LP. Jaki Shelton Green is the owner of SistaWRITE providing creativity retreats for women writers across the US, North Africa, and Europe. Recently retired from teaching Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and the Poet Laureate for the NC Museum of Art, she currently serves as the 2026 Artist in Residence for the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and is poetry editor for WALTER Magazine.  


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EXPERIENCES
    Activity Time Information
    Show Date
    Fri 4 Sep 2026 10:00 AM to 11:50 AM
    TitleWhat We Keep Keeps Us: Exploring Our Human Museums
    Venue Writers Workshop
    2026: Replaces Portal
    Experience DescriptionJaki Shelton Green will facilitate a deeply reflective creativity salon centered on the excavation of our human museums... the lived experiences, memories, and inner landscapes that shape who we are and how we create. Green's work bridges the personal and the communal, inviting participants to explore how creativity and identity emerge from our deepest interior spaces and shared stories. Drawing on her profound practice in poetry, narrative, and documentary inquiry, Green will guide participants in considering body-centered knowing--the wisdom embedded in presence, breath, sensation, and embodied experience. The salon will explore how language, voice, and creative expression can be reclaimed and shaped by lived experience rather than inherited limitations. Through dialogue, reflection, writing, and poetic inquiry, participants will be invited to explore their relationship with their creativity, deepen their creative practice, and embrace the alchemy of self and collective transformation.
    Show Date
    Sat 5 Sep 2026 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM
    TitleYour body as a museum; incorporating poetry & accessible movement to explore our internal stories and unbound potential.
    Venue Writers Workshop
    2026: Replaces Portal
    Experience DescriptionWriting your own poetry influenced through embodied movement. Accessible for all.
    Show Date
    Sat 5 Sep 2026 3:00 PM to 3:50 PM
    TitlePractice Circle Deep Dive with Wild Goose thought leaders Refereed by Jim Henderson + Jim Hancock
    Venue UMC
    Experience Description

    What if 50 minutes could change the way we disagree?

    What if a single question could shift how we listen, and connect?

    In this 50-minute session, a group of Wild Goose Co-Creators will participate in a live 3Practice Circle, guided by Jim Henderson and Jim Hancock of 3Practices. This isn’t a lecture or a panel. You’ll watch — and experience — a structured conversation designed to increase clarity across differences - large and small.

    The format is simple and disciplined. The group will respond to one carefully chosen question (what they call a *frame*). A volunteer speaks for two uninterrupted minutes. Then participants ask clarifying questions — not counterarguments) — beginning with, “I’d be curious to know…” The speaker responds for up to a minute to each question. When there are no more questions, another volunteer responds to the frame. Jim and Jim serve as referees, keeping time and protecting fairness and safety in the process — and while we don’t promise you won’t hear something that sets your teeth on edge, the referees will do everything possible to ensure a fair, safe and honest exchange.

    Circles can focus on almost anything. A Difference Circle frame might ask “Who are ‘they,’ and what are you afraid they’d do if they thought they could get away with it?” … A Story Circle frame might be, “This is when I realized how my identity shaped my experience…” … A Support Circle frame could ask, “Are You Ok?\ … An Insight Circle frame can center on a book, a film, a speech, a sacred text, a subject matter expert and ask: “If you could talk about just one thing from this source, what would you choose?” … Or, closer to home, a Wild Goose Festival frame might be: “Here’s something that could make Wild Goose even better…” All that to say: While the questions matter, how we listen - and why - matters even more.

    By the end of this session, you’ll understand how the 3Practice Circle tool works and why it often turns strangers into acquaintances — and moves acquaintances toward something closer to community. You won’t just hear about a new tool, you’ll see it in action and leave with something you can actually use in your spiritual community, classroom, institution, organization, family — all the spaces where honest conversations matter.