CeLillianne Green is a lawyer, poet, teacher, mediator, playwright, and speaker. She wrote her first poem, Because I Love You in 2001. She shared it in 2003, with no expectation of writing another poem. Yet, in the fall/winter of 2005-2006, she wrote over 100 poems. Her most significant work during that time was the epic poem, That Word, published in 2010, and selected in 2015 by the DC Black Theatre Festival for a Staged Reading.
The cultural observations in her work are about life, love, spirituality, relationships, history, and politics. Her work has aired on radio, TV including ITN in England, and she’s been quoted in newspapers and in law review articles. She was recognized as a Social Justice Thought Leader by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, for her poem, Lifted in its 2009 publication, “Obama Reflections: From Election Day to Presidency.” In 2009, Lifted was sealed in the cornerstone of the Thurgood Marshall Center in Washington, DC which will not be re-opened until the year 2108.
Ms. Green’s recording, CeLillianne Says released in 2011. She penned The Call of Freedom for the 150th Anniversary of Washington, DC Emancipation Day and recited it at the MLK, Jr. Memorial in 2012. A Bridge, The Poetic Primer on African and African American Experiences was published in 2015. In 2016, she wrote The Present and They Prayed. The former celebrated the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She recited the latter at the 2016 A.M.E. Church Bicentennial in Philadelphia. She delivered, A Special Place – 150 Years Bold, for the 150th Anniversary of her alma mater, Howard University School of Law in April 2019. In 2020, Ms. Green spoke at the University of Cambridge, Robinson College. She is a contributor to the anthology, 2020: The Year That Changed America and the National Geographic Documentary, Red Summer, both released in 2021. Contact her: www.CeLillianneGreen.com.