Who: North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson When: 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 8 Where: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room in Jackson Library at UNCG. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the program. Shelby Stephenson, who was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014, lives on the small farm where he was born near Benson, in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. “Most of my poems come out of that background,” he says, “where memory and imagination play on one another.” Perhaps Margaret Maron, Stephenson’s cousin, described him best when she wrote the following, included in the program for his induction into the NC Literary Hall of Fame: http://ncartseveryday.org/2015/02/my-cousin-shelby-stephenson/ . Educated at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is professor emeritus ...
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