Carolina Quotes
You know, when you’re growing up in the rural South, books become your friends.
Jaki Shelton Green Carolinian
Source
Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University, spring 2019; The Fight & The Fiddle, April 26, 2021
- form
- interview
- work
- Building Community Through Poetry
- year
- 2019
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