Root Work Journal - Summoning Flight - Volume 2, Issue 1
Spells for Zero Captures
Glenis Redmond
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.47106/12501187
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These poems of Harriet Tubman speaks to her ability to shape shift. She stands
mythical because of her escape of slavery and rescue of so many others.
Glenis Redmond is nationally renowned award-winning poet and teaching artist
traveling the world sharing and teaching poetry. She writes about the strength of
her Afro-Carolinian roots, while exploring their weighted and palpable histories.
Glenis is a literary community leader. Her work has been showcased on NPR and
PBS and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, the North Carolina
Literary Review, Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, StorySouth,
About Place and Carolina Muse. Her latest book, The Listening Skin will be
published by Four Way Books in 2022.
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Citation: Redmond, G. (2022). Spells for Zero Capture. Root Work Journal, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.47106/12501187
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