Going the Distance: Yearning to Breathe Free – July 2020

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 1
“I Got a Hole In My Afro,” Mary “Lady-D” Brown  The U.S. Is a Papadum,” Galen Kusic  “When I Rise Up,” Georgia Douglas Johnson

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe  Free – July 3
“You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument,” Caroline Randall Williams, New York Times, June 26, 2020  “We’ll Never Turn Back,” SNCC Anthem  “Uplifting,” Mary Susan Gast

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe  Free – July 5
“The Return,”  Leonore Wilson   “Summer Reminiscing,”  Bud Light

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe  Free – July 8
“Anger,” Katrina Monroe   “We Are The Cowboys,” Willie Nelson

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe  Free – July 10
“CHANG’E THURSDAY INKAN” and “CHANG’E FRIDAY INKAN,” Tom Stanton  “Quarantined Lover’s Song,” Peter Bray

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe  Free – July 12
“What Bird Sings,” Leonore Wilson  “Since Covid,” Mary Susan Gast

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 15
“When I Was Whole,” Lauren Coodley “To Grasp The Moment,” Bud Light

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 17
“Memorial Day: Pantoum For Twin Pandemics,” Sandra Anfang    “At A Time Like This,” Frederick Douglass   “Memorial Day Pantoum Rebuts Itself,” Sandra Anfang

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 22
“Say Their Names,” Sandra Anfang   “On Solidarity,” Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 24
“Six Miles Away,” Kathleen Herrmann    Favorite Poem, John Lewis

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 26
“It’s Sunday,” Jeannette DesBoine   “July 4, 2020,”  D.L. Lang

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 29
“Crossing Over,” Mary Susan Gast   “Help Redeem The Soul of America” Galen Kusic

Going the Distance – Yearning to Breathe Free – July 31
“All The Pain And Glory,” Shawna Swetech   “Lady Liberty,” Sherry Sheehan    “I Dream A World,” Langston Hughes