Say What Open Mic & Feature Glenis Redmond
Sunday night poetry
Event Types: Literary Arts
Feb 2, 2025 7:30 PM — Feb 2, 2025 9:00 PM
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Kimberly Simms
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Say What Open Mic at Coffee Underground and host Kimberly Simms featuring Glenis Redmond. All poetry styles welcome! The night will also feature a night of open mic slots for local poets on a first-come, first serve basis. Open mic poets may read/recite one poem.
Say What feature Glenis Redmond is Greenville, South Carolina’s Inaugural Poet Laureate. She is a Baldwin Fellow 2024-2025 and a Poet Laureate Fellow 2023, selected by the American Academy of Poets. In 2024, she was chosen as a Citizen Diplomat with the Jonathan Green Maritime Cultural Center to travel to Liverpool and London as a guest of the International Slavery Museum and the House of Commons.
Glenis has published seven books of poetry. Her latest books are The Listening Skin(Four Way Books), Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, Art by Jonathan Green, Poetry by Glenis Redmond(University of Georgia Press and The Song of Everything: A Poet’s Exploration of South Carolina State Parks.
Glenis received the highest arts award in South Carolina, the Governor’s Award, and was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2022. Glenis has recently been published in the Orion Magazine, Callaloo, American Poets, The New York Times and the North Carolina Literary Review.
The Listening Skin was shortlisted for the Open Pen America and Julie Suk awards. Glenis is the mother of twin daughters, Amber and Celeste, and a Grandmother (Gaga) to Julian, Paisley, and Quinn.
Glenis believes poetry is the mouth that speaks when all other mouths are silent.
Coffee Underground. 1 East Coffee Street. Greenville, SC 29601. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $10. Entry is only guaranteed to those with advanced tickets. Non-sold-out shows have tickets for sale at the door via credit card, cash app, PayPal, or cash. $witsendpoetry
