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“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
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“White Pelican” by Sher Schwartz
White Pelicanfifty years of threaded marriagewoven connections brokenher body sickens strands untwineher spirit though still singsa clear young soprano herbroken-open milky poolAmerican pelicans circleenormous white lusty throated birdspondering, patient, and sturdywebbed feet paddle, a surge,a thrust of snowy teardrops sprayingwhite wings seen as black underneaththe birds burst up into their heavy glideand it’s the up-upwe… Continue reading
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“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
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