Sher Poetry

Public Art on the wall in a neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo courtesy Theresa LaPera, March 2023.

Click the link below to read this poem, and to learn more about Gwendolyn Brooks and the grouping of poems she wrote named after children depicting the spirit of Brook’s Chicago neighborhood.

.https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/05/gwendolyn-brooks-bronzeville-boys-and-girls/

A short video clip of Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial, April 9, 1939–– less than 2 minutes, and such a wonderful smile when Marian finishes. Eleanor Roosevelt set up the opportunity.

https://youtu.be/mAONYTMf2pk?si=whas3sWncTgtvN0d

Afterward for “When I hear Marian Anderson sing” by Sher Schwartz