This workshop is free, but registration is required as space is limited. 

In this generative Women’s Health Poetry Workshop, Glenis Redmond guides participants into the wisdom of the body as a source of language, memory, and truth. Drawing from poems in The Listening Skin—including themes found in her work around women’s health—participants will explore how poetry can help articulate what the body endures, remembers, and knows.

Through reading, reflection, and carefully crafted prompts, participants will be invited to create poems that give voice to personal experiences related to women’s health, resilience, and self-advocacy. This workshop creates a supportive space where lived experience becomes art, and the body’s quiet messages find expression on the page.

This workshop compliments, and immediately follows, IPH’s Community Impact Film Series – Women’s Health event.

Glenis Redmond is Greenville, South Carolina’s inaugural Poet Laureate and a 2025 recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, the state’s highest civilian honor. This award is bestowed by the Governor in recognition of a lifetime of extraordinary achievement, service, and contributions on a national or statewide scale. She received the 2025 Highlights Foundation Inspire Scholarship and is a Baldwin Fellow (2024–2025). In 2023, she was selected as a Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets. Glenis has also been named a Citizen Diplomat by the Jonathan Green Maritime Cultural Center. Glenis earned her B.A. from Erskine College, her M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College, and is a Cave Canem alumna.

This workshop is made possible due to the support of South Arts.