History as poetry

Glenis Redmond moves forward by preserving the past

By Chris Worthy

Poets gather past, present, and future, sifting the chaff and knitting the throughlines into something that is transcendent. Glenis Redmond is an accomplished poet, teacher, and community voice, a renowned scholar and author, a daughter, mother and grandmother. She is also Greenville, South Carolina’s first poet laureate, the holder of so…