Update (Feb 4th), Connect & Heal's monthly poetry writing workshop and open-mid will take place on Feb 17th, NOT Feb 10th.
#LaoShiClover (baile.reina at yahoo.com) and I (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/) discuss our poems "#TheIronyoftheNewBlackMillionaire" & "#OdetoanAmicableStranger (On the Death of Mary Oliver)," what it means to "gain" from death & the trauma of losing one's child to #policebrutality.
On February 9th & 10th, our poet guest will be starring in the Vagina Monologues at the #ThirdStreetTheater. Get your tickets at: https://phoenixcenterforthearts.yapsody.com/event/index/355161/the-vagina-monologues.
Take a listen to also find out all the poetry events taking place in and around Phoenix during the week of #February4th.
Episode cover provided by Lao Shi Clover
Here are some background articles related to our discussion:
1. How Many People Are Killed By Police Each Year? - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/559835/
2. How Lawsuits Involving Police Officers Can Cost a City a Whopping Amount of Money
https://www.virtra.com/blogs/lawsuits-involving-police-officers-can-cost-city-whopping-amount-money/%20
3. Mapping Police Violence
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
4. Years of life lost due to encounters with law enforcement in the USA, 2015–2016 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
https://jech.bmj.com/content/72/8/715
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