North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and artist Judith Ernst will discuss their collaborative public art project and honor the 100th anniversary of W.B Yeats’s seminal poem, “The Second Coming,” at an opening reception on October 9, 2019 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Florence and James Peacock Atrium of the FedEx Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., UNC Chapel Hill.

Opening the evening will be Katie Bowler Young, director of Global Relations, followed by Terry Rhodes, interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, who will provide welcoming remarks. The program will then feature an overview of the installation by Ernst and a poetry reading of Green’s new poem, “Flowing Beneath the Center,” which she wrote in response to Yeats’s poem as part of the project, as well as other selected poems by Green.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. Parking is available in the McCauley Deck underneath the FedEx Global Education Center starting at 5 p.m. Please contact Ingrid Smith, manager of global events and exhibitions, to register and to also receive a ParkMobile app code for complimentary parking for the evening.

Sponsors include the Center for European Studies, Global Relations, UNC Global, English and Comparative Literature, and the Creative Writing program.