North Carolina’s P oet Laureate stopped by Western Carolina University this week to hear students share their poetry . Pam Duncan is an associate English professor at W estern C arolina . Every year she starts her creative writing class with poetry. “I’m hoping that they will see that poetry can live in the real world. It’s not just limited to the classroom,” says Duncan. “I believe we all need poetry everyday.” This year , she got to introduce her students to a real working poet: Jaki Shelton