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Glenis Redmond : Under the Sun
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This Road Warrior Poet, though steeped in Afro-Carolininan roots, speaks a universal tongue of love, loss, celebration, sorrow and hope. Her verse uplifts family, culture and community.
Genre: Spoken Word: Poetry
Release Date: 2008
Under the Sun Record Label: Main Street Rag Publishing
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Glenis Redmond is a 2005-2006 North Carolina Arts Council Literary Award recipient and a Denny C. Plattner Award winner for Outstanding Poetry sponsored by the Appalachian Heritage journal. She has been inducted in the Mt. Xpress\' Hall of Fame for Best Poet in Western North Carolina after winning for over seven years. She is a Kennedy Teaching Artist and her work has aired on National Public Radio. She is a past winner of the Southern Fried Slam and a finalist of National Poetry Slam.

She has been published most recently in Meridians, African Voices, EMRYS, The Asheville Poetry Review, 2006 Kakalak: A Journal of Carolina Poets, Appalachian Heritage and the Appalachian Journal. Glenis is a native of Greenville, South Carolina. She presently resides in Asheville, North Carolina with her twin daughters Amber and Celeste.

Website: www.Glenisredmond.com

Poems from \'Under the Sun\'
Scripted Hope
She
Crown Glory
Sister Complex
She Can’t Read
The Color Purple
Hood High
Z.
A Simple Act
Uncle Walter
With Heart As Well As Hands
Strong Stitch Woman
Step Sister
More Than
Necessary Art
Finding Home
Birthdays
Poetic Fate
Too Much
M.I.T (mother in training)
The Unbearable Heat of South Carolina
Crows A Slave Named Patience
Burying the Dead
Dislocated Heart
White Flight
leave me be
I Was Virginal
Song of Disrespect
Contrition
Sacrum
Surely Not My Brother
Lonely Girl
Coffee Black
I Didn’t Have My Colors Done
Mango
Poem Kiss
Train
Passages
Flatlands: Lubbock, Texas 1986
Read the Signs
Salute To Miracles
Love Waits
Courage as a Muscle

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REVIEWS

Under the Sun
author: Dennis Thomas
The BOOK was very good. Provide many things that created a new way of thinking. My one disappointment was the order form indicated I would get a CD, but I received a book. A CD would allow me to listen repeatedly when I travel.
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Under the Sun
author: Jackie Early
This is definitely the time to read the poetry of Glenis Redmond. There is a time read, a time to laugh then say, “My God” and “oh wow”. She paints poetic structures of family and plants historical measures to their portraits. This young story woman takes the reader home with her. We walk by the river Soul, from whence we all came. We want to catch her words and arrive in fields of oxygen, fresh air being whipped by another generation strong African American writers. Glenis gives birth to humor with poems like Poetic Fate: You will laugh out loud with the story of the daughter “solving for the unknown” contrasted with the mother writing “because of the unknown”. The poet takes us with her, on her sometimes painful journey of loves’ recapitulation. The poet labors yet it is the reader who profits. Jackie Earley
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