Carolina Quotes
I come from a family of teachers, and reading and writing was like sacrament in my family.
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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