I Wanted to Ask the Trees
- Media type
- Film
I Wanted to Ask the Trees · I Wanted to Ask the Trees · MOVIE
About this title
North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, paints moving, vivid, and poignant pictures of the complexities of the African American experience with her audio poems. Jaki visited the grove of trees in which an ancestor had been lynched, inspiring this poem brought to life through film.