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Elly and Zelle--an original play by Maxine Ford--was created for elementary school students and discusses the complexities of friendship--especially those that occur when proper communication does not happen. This story follows Elly, an elephant, and Zelle, a gazelle, who are on a mission to achieve...

“Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet” Audre Lorde asserts that, “it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are... about to be birthed, but already felt.” This inherent feeling inspired my investigation of the legacy of ancestral memory conveyed through poetry. Poetry has...