Speaking Truths - Liberating Spirits

City-wide celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights Day

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Poetry Finalists - Click on a poets name to read the poem and hear it read out loud

Alison Walker - Back on the farm after the fall of Saigon - May 5, 1975

Joe Francisco - To Mr. Hughes

Jimmi Ware - Rivers to Cross

Melissa Edwards - An Education

Estibahn Bandy - It Was Called For

Avenue Marie Campala - Anchorage, Alaska (Della Brown, killed 30 August, 2000)

Catherine Whitney Beaudreault - Trinity

Laura Meyerson - Freedom's Price