Jameela F. Dallis Poetry Reading

The Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Jameela F. Dallis on Thursday, October 9th at 6 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. 

Jameela F. Dallis is a multidisciplinary writer, curator, art collector, and scholar based in Durham, NC. Jameela’s first full-length poetry collection is Encounters for the Living and the Dead, forthcoming from River River Books in September 2025. She curated Material Encounters (Peel, Carrboro, March 2023) and juried Scaffold (Artspace, Raleigh, April 2023) and has served on regional curatorial and fellowship committees. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Casserole Series Journal, Triangle Poetry Journal, The Fight and the Fiddle, Honey Literary, Our State, Walter, Indy Week, and elsewhere. She taught composition and literature university courses for a decade and has facilitated creative workshops—often poetry and art-centered—since 2009.