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Loving Breonna
Author’s Statement:
When I write about spring in all its newness and delight, I think of my neighbors In Baltimore just seven miles south of me. I want to write to them, to acknowledge that there are neighborhoods that don’t bloom like mine. I know how beauty uplifts me, sustains me. I imagine how hard it must be to dream of possibility. In poems of mine I attempt to address this inequity, a different kind of hunger. For this collage poem, I mixed in details from the front page NYT article on August 30, 2020, ” The Untold Story of Breonna Taylor.”
I hope the poem is a bouquet left in memoriam.
Bio:
Christine Higgins is the author of Hallow, a full-length collection of poetry published this Spring, 2020 (Cherry Grove). She was the 2nd place winner in the Poetry Box competition for her chapbook, Hello, Darling in 2019. She is the co-author of In the Margins, A Conversation in Poetry (Cherry Grove, 2017). She has been the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Award for both poetry and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in America, Poetry East, Nagautuck River Review and Windhover. You can purchase her books and read more about her on her website: www.christinehigginswriter.com.
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It was excellent to begin with, meant even more after reading her comments about it.