Poetry: The Empty Cup by Katharine Rolston FisherEvening at Occaquan. Rain pelts the workhouse roof.The prison matrons are sewing together for the Red CrossThe women prisoners are going to bed in two long rows.Read More Song In My Head: Power of Two by The Indigo Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj0yVN8pFNw Art: Kathleen Gemberling’s Time’s Echo Photo credit: tacoma.emuseum.com …
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Poetry: Dawn by John Gould FletcherAbove the east horizon,the great red flower of the dawnopens slowly, petal by petal;Read More Lyrical: Revelator by Gillian WelchQueen of the fakes and imitators/Time’s the revelator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV_uFpbXZ9k Art: Simeon Solomon’s Dawn (Head of Hypnos) Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing …
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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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 …
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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