Local figure
CJ Suitt
A Chapel Hill native, CJ Suitt became the town's first poet laureate after the Town Council voted in November 2019 to create the post. A spoken-word poet, he directed and coached the Sacrificial Poets and worked with the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, PlayMakers and the Ackland Art Museum.
Source: Orange County Arts Commission: More Than Words: Chapel Hill's First Poet Laureate, CJ Suitt
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Life and Orange County connections
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- Chapel Hill creates a poet laureate post and names CJ Suitt the first The Chapel Hill Town Council voted to launch a poet laureate program, initiated by council members Rachel Schaevitz and Allen Buansi, and appointed CJ Suitt as the first. He took up the role in January 2020, and the town stretched the two-year term to three because of the pandemic. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Rachel Schaevitz, Allen BuansiSearch the index · Orange County Arts Commission: More Than Words: Chapel Hill's First Poet Laureate, CJ Suitt
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Background
- Chapel Hill's first poet laureate wants to write outside the 'suit-and-tie culture'The Daily Tar Heel UNC’s student newspaper, reporting from the day and its archive
- 'I feel honored': Chapel Hill's first poet laureate reflects on his time in the position A Spectrum News story from April 2022, reposted by the town's arts office.
Records of the time
- DigitalNC newspapers: 1 Orange County pages naming CJ Suitt Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
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- NC LIVE: prepared search for CJ Suitt Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison Meet with the Local History Liaison at the Main Library, usually Mondays from noon to 3 p.m., or send a question using the online request form
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