Women’s History Month Care Package for Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Poetry: Still I Rise by Maya AngelouYou may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.Read More Song In My Head: You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpvirQ-hPA Art: FromZackary Drucker’s Distance is Where the Heart Is, Home is Where You …

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Care Package for Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Poetry: America is Loving Me to Death by Michael Kleber-Diggs    acrostic golden shovelAmerica is loving me to death, loving me to death slowly, and IMainly try not to be disappeared here, knowing she won’t pledgeEven tolerance in return. Dear God, I can’t offer allegiance.Read More Lyrical: Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers) by …

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Women’s History Month Care Package for Monday, March 8, 2021

Poetry: An Old Portrait by Margaret WiddemerFlower-decked, wide-skirted, from her oval frameShe watches us between the drooping curlsAnd smiles a little as she always smiled.Read More Song In My Head: I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDCNmdi7QI Art: Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “One child, one teacher, one pen and one …

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Care Package for Monday, March 8, 2021

Poetry: Voices by Sharon OldsOur voices race to the towers, and up beyondthe atmosphere, to the satellite,slowly turning, then back downRead More (https://poets.org/poem/voices) Lyrical: Lodestar by Sarah HarmerAnd wait for it/There are only two things now/This great black night/And the fireglow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyMONDo3zNc Art: Edward Hicks’ The Falls of Niagara Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “What hath …

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