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Shigeru Yabu

2021-11-04
04 November
By Phil Taggart
On November 4, 2021
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Dear America: Telling the World We Lived. 2 by Karen Gonzalez

I’ve had the honor to listen to a few more stories and poems from our grant, “Dear America: Telling the World We Lived.” Just a reminder, the Ventura County Poetry Project is working with CA Humanities to preserve and learn from powerful voices of older people. Due to the pandemic, we’ve experienced a devastating loss. “Dear America: Telling the World We Lived” was created to record significant experiences in poems and stories from older writers and pass them on to the younger generation. I was incredibly moved by Andrea Carter Brown, Ruben Lee Dalton, Shigeru Yabu, and Lydia Cruz-Machlitt’s stories and I hope that youRead More →

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