Featured:

• An interview with Roberta Beary in Juxtapositions (research and scholarship journal of The Haiku Foundation).
•  A WALTER Magazine essay on writing every day for a year: https://waltermagazine.com/noted/resolving-to-practice-writing-poetry/
• A Curious Honeybee, a film by Gideon Young, commissioned by the Arts Education Partnership and the Education Commission of the States.

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Highlights:

• Facilitator. Arts Integration coaching sessions. Arlington, TX public schools. February 2024.
• Producer. West End Poetry Festival. October 19-21, 2023. Carrboro, North Carolina.
  •  https://www.carrboronc.gov/2781/West-End-Poetry-Festival
• Guest Artist. Bad Art Club. August 26, 2-5pm. Eno Arts Mill Gallery. Hillsborough, NC. https://events.humanitix.com/bad-art-club
• Facilitator. A+ Schools Arts Integration institute for new schools. July 16-21, 2023.
• Pop-up Poetry and Music in response to Spirit in the Land exhibition with the Nasher Museum at Duke University. In the gallery. June 28. 10am.
• Featured Poet for inaugural Haw River Poetry Series. June 9, 2023. Saxapahaw, NC. 6-8pm. With North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and Chapel Hill Poet Laureate Cortland Gilliam.
• April 19, 2023. Arts-Integrated poetry workshop for Columbus County Schools’ innovative High School Poet Laureate program. Location: Columbus County Arts Council.
• January 28-February 3, 2023. Poet in Residence at East Columbus Jr./Sr. High School in Columbus County as part of a 2023 Arts in Education Artist Residency Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. In partnership with Black Box Dance Theater.
• COALESCE, a collaborative exhibition between visual artists and poets is in view at Eno Arts Mill through Saturday, January 28, 2023. The public is invited to visit the exhibit Tuesday-Saturday, 12-5pm.
  • Includes Gideon’s poem american english, inspired by TJ Mundy’s piece “Untitled, but kind of…” and TJ’s new piece “Vital: Record,” inspired by Gideon’s poem things i must consider.
• A poetry review of Wayne Caldwell’s Woodsmoke, appearing in Our State Magazine (October 2022 issue).
• August 2022. Social Emotional Learning workshops for Educators featuring translation and creation of poetry and Josef Albers’ artwork.
• January 16, 2022. Teacher/Poet: Poets on Teaching. Zoom. 3-4pm EST.
  • Four teacher-poets, Gideon Young, Beth Copeland, Don Ball, and Jane Shlensky, will take you into a variety of classrooms and call forth the twin miracles of education and poetry.”
• December 11, 2021. Featured Artist for the North Carolina Poetry Society anniversary celebration. 10am EST.
• November 2, 2021. Poetry reading with Nexus Poets in New Bern, NC. 7pm EST.
• November 6, 2021. Art & Nature workshop with the Seymour Center. Chapel Hill, NC. 4-5:15pm. In-person.
  • Event Poster and Registration Information
• October 3, 2021. (Virtual) Poetry reading with the Haiku Poets of Northern California. 4pm EST.
• October 16, 2021. In-person host for the Poet Laureates reading for the West End Poetry Festival in Carrboro, NC. 5:00-6:45pm.
• Summer 2021. Arts & Literacy Project with the Arts Education Partnership and the Education Commission of the States.
• July 10, 2021. (Virtual) Poetry reading with Haiku Northwest. 4pm EST
• June 25, 2021. Featured Poetry Reader at the Hillsborough Last Friday Art Walk.
  •  https://www.hillsboroughartscouncil.org/last-friday
    • Tom Stevens Gallery: 6:15 – 6:45 PM
    • Colonial Inn: 7:00 – 7:30 PM
    • Margaret Lane Gallery: 7:45 – 8:15 PM
    • Yonder: 8:30 – 9:00 PM
• Host for Carrboro Day! The Carrboro Poets Council is bringing back a treasured tradition with a new necessary twist: Poetry in the Virtual Round. Sunday, May 2, 2021. 2:00pm-3:00pm
• Collaborative Book Launch for my hands full of light by Gideon Young, and Professional Happiness by Allison Joseph, both published by Crystal Simone Smith and Backbone Press. April 25, at 4pm.
• Silent Fields: A Virtual Ecopoetry Reading in Celebration of Earth Day.With Amber Flora Thomas, Matthew Wimberly, and Crystal Simone Smith. Hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.          12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT. Thursday, April 22, 2021.
• TED Talks Online featured reader, along with Clinton Poet Laureate Pat Barone. Hosted by the Henry Carter Hull Library in Clinton, CT. Tuesday, April 20, 9:30am EST.
• James Applewhite Poetry Prize Reading. Hosted by the North Carolina Literary Review. Wednesday, April 14th, at 7pm.
  •  Event details on the ECU Alumni website, including Registration
• 2nd place in the 2020 James Applewhite Poetry Prize.
  • http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/news/2020-Applewhite-Poetry-Prize-Winner.html
• With the Carrboro Poets Council, coordinator of the Virtual West End Poetry Festival 2020, Carrboro, NC. October 2020.
  • www.westendpoetryfestival.org
• Reader Meet Writer online Zoom event. Southeast Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA)  event for All the Songs We Sing. July 18, 2020. 7 pm.
• Final Judge for Raleigh Fine Arts Literary Contest 2019-2020.
• Online Instructor for the North Carolina Writers’ Network. In this workshop, we studied the poetry of Sandra Lim, Jake Skeets, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, and Crystal Simone Smith, examining aspects of the real and ethereal.  January 14, 2020. 7-8:30pm.
• Featured Reader for the 2019 Flyleaf Books Poetry Series Holiday Party. Chapel Hill Public Library. December 3. 6pm.
• Poetry & Music & Writing. Caregiver Day of Care. Orange County Department on Aging. Seymour Center in Chapel Hill. November 9, 2019. Noon
  • Caregiver Day of Care 2019
• Coordinator of the West End Poetry Festival 2019, Carrboro, NC. October 16-19, 2019.
• Poetry Performance. African American Poetry: Past & Present. Orange County Main Library, Hillsborough, NC. February 19, 2019. 6-8pm.
• Poetry Performance. Nexus Poets. New Bern, NC. March 5, 2019. 7-9pm.
• Coordinator of the West End Poetry Festival 2018, Carrboro, NC. October 17-20, 2018.
• A+ Schools – Workshop Facilitator. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC. August 9-10, 2018.
• A+ Schools New School Conferences. Workshop Leader. McKimmon Center in Raleigh. July 11-13, 2018

• Facilitator for the Kinetic Connections Summer Teacher Institute in Wilson, NC. Partnerships: Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, Kenan Fellows Program, Wingate Charitable Foundation, and A+ Schools of North Carolina. June 27-29, 2018
• Poetry & Flute with Artist UNITED – The Walls We Build.  Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. June 7, 2018. 7pm
• Poetry Reading for One Window’s Light at the North Carolina Haiku Society (NCHS) 39^th Annual Haiku Holiday Conference in Chapel Hill, NC. Saturday, April 28, 2018.
• Poetry Reading & Workshop Facilitator. “Walking into April’ Poetry Day at the Sam and Marjorie Ragan Writing Center, Barton College in Wilson, NC. In association with the North Carolina Poetry Society. April 14, 2018
• Join us Thursday, February 22, 2018, 7pm, at the Nasher Museum of Art on Duke University’s campus for a reading & discussion panel by the editor and authors of One Window’s Light: A Collection of Haiku, published by Unicorn Press in Greensboro.
• Poetry Reading. Black History, Black Futures. Orange County Library in Hillsborough, NC. February 21st, 2018
• K-6 PLC Coaching sessions on Vertical Planning & Arts Integration with A+ Schools in Arlington, TX.  January 10-12, 2018
• A+ Schools – Whole-School Professional Development and Prek-2 Teachers’ Workshop Facilitator. Alamance-Burlington Public Schools. November 1, 2017
• Producer of the West End Poetry Festival 2017. Theme of Resistance. Downtown Carrboro. October 18-21, 2017
• Poetry Reading with Celisa Steele and Susan Spalt. Visions International presents Poetry at Aversboro Coffee. Garner, NC. 4pm. October 15, 2017
• A+ Schools – Teachers’ Workshop Facilitator. Asheboro Public Schools. August 17th, 2017
• A+ Schools New School Conferences. Workshop Leader. McKimmon Center in Raleigh. July 17-21, 2017
• Poetry & Flute Performance with Orange County Department on Aging’s “Memory Cafes.” July 10, 2017
• Instructor for Figurative Language Workshops for Teachers with A+ Schools in Hickory, NC. June 29-30, 2017
• Facilitator for the Kinetic Connections Summer Teacher Institute in Wilson, NC. Partnerships: Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, Kenan Fellows Program, Wingate Charitable Foundation, and A+ Schools of North Carolina. June 21-23, 2017
• Main Stage Poetry Reading and Poetry-in-the-Round gathering at Carrboro Day. May 7, 2017
• Poetry Reading for the Town of Carrboro’s Board of Aldermen Meeting. May 2, 2017. Video
• Poetry & Flute Performance with Orange County Department on Aging’s “Memory Cafes”. April 10, 2017
• PLC Coaching sessions with A+ Schools in Hickory, NC.  November 9, 2016
• Studio Classrooms with A+ Schools in Durham, NC.  November 16, 2016
• Poetry Reading with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at the 2016 West End Poetry Festival on October 15, 2016 in Carrboro, NC.
• A+ Schools – Teachers’ Workshop Facilitator. Jacksonville Public Schools. August 22nd, 2016
• Instructor for Duke Young Writers’ Camp. Two courses. Session III. July-August 2016.
• Featured Performer in Remembrance: An Evening of African-American Poetry. Chapel Hill Library. June 14, 2016
• Reader and Panelist at the West End Poetry Festival on October 17, 2015 in Carrboro, NC.
• Panelist and Performer at the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective 20th Anniversary Reading/Program on July 12, 2015 in Durham, NC.
• Literary panel & poetry reading with the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective at the 14th annual African American Cultural Celebration at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, NC on January 31st, 2015.

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