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Tag: poetry

Literature Poetry

Ida B. Wells

Elaine Blanchard July 14, 2022 Downtown MemphisIda B. WellsIda B. Wells statuepoetrypublic art

Ida B. Wells She’s small, standing in her full skirt Between the music of Beale and the bells of the Baptist church. Ida B Wells,…

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Watch and Read the Winning Tom Lee Poetry Contest Works

Caroline Carrico May 6, 2022 Memphis River Parks PartnershippoetryTom Lee

Tom Lee Poetry Contest Winners On Friday, May 6, 2022, the Memphis River Parks Partnership recognized the winners of the inaugural Tom Lee Poetry and…

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Featured Story Poetry

More than She, Her, Hers: A Poem

Jeanine Jones March 8, 2022 poetryWomen

More than She, Her, Hers Jeanine Jones More than hips thighs heartache and cries Fallopian tubes silk stocking, shaved legs ovaries and eggs Petite purses…

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Literature

Defenseless Against the Memory: New Poetry Collection from Bobby C. Rogers

Chapter16 Community February 28, 2022 Chapter16Emily Choatepoetry

Defenseless Against the Memory Bobby C. Rogers brings depth and richness to his poetry’s West Tennessean setting By Emily Choate, originally published on Chapter 16 on February…

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Saving, Sacrificing and Sailing: A Tom Lee Poem

Jeanine Jones February 24, 2022 Memphis HistorypoetryTom Lee

Saving, Sacrificing and Sailing By Jeanine Jones No walking on water or calming the sea Though, like the savior, he stretched his hands to thee…

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Withers Work Will Never Wither

Jeanine Jones February 17, 2022 Ernest C Witherspoetry

Withers Work Will Never Wither By Jeanine Jones They say a picture is worth 1000 words His are worth more than 1 million before the…

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Literature Poetry

Penning, Printing and Pressing On: The Ida B. Wells Statue

Jeanine Jones February 10, 2022 Downtown MemphisIda B. Wellspoetrypublic art

This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue I of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in November 2021, page 22-23. Penning, Printing and Pressing On There’s nothing civil about…

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January: A Poem

Candace Echols February 2, 2022 poetry

Swirling thoughts threaten my joy. Burnout: groceries, again; cooking, again; backpacks, again; that minivan with doors that slide: forward, back; forward, back; forward, back; again.…

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Today I need good

Candace Echols March 9, 2021 poetry

By Candace Echols I am so tired, So tired of the tough, So tired of reading about all the world’s stuff.  Today I need good, I…

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