Guest Voice
-
“Gertrude” aka “When I hear Marian Anderson Sing” by Gwendolyn Brooks (Guest Voice Theresa LaPera)
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… Continue reading
-
“Flip Side” by Vivienne Popperl (Guest Voice)
“Flip Side” is found in Popperl’s collection of poems: A Nest in the Heart, Poetry Box, 2022. Available here : https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/nest-heart Afterward “Flip Side” by Sher Schwartz “All Shook Up” recorded by Elvis Presley — stayed on the top 100 hits Billboard for 9 weeks in 1957. Continue reading
-
“Message in a Bottle” by David Shumate
Guest reader Bruce Schwartz More about Shumate’s most recent collection of prose poems, Kimonos in the Closet, can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18006824-kimonos-in-the-closet?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=YqM7j920NT&rank=1 Afterward for “Message in a Bottle” by Sher Schwartz What does this poem remind you of? Continue reading
Sher Poetry 