Happy birthday! (March 30th) Tracy Chapman:
Tracy and Alice camping mid-Nineties. Photo by Tracy Chapman Happy birthday! (March 30th) Blessed one Who carries ancestors In your voice- As extraordinary And faithful To your course As the sun.~aw
Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24
Feliz Cumpleaños Mumia Abu-Jamal/ Abril 24 Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24 What have you given us to accompany our despair? A life lived to the full In a cage too small for…
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd
Update 2023-04 : New photo by Vashchelle Andre of Alice and Ede By Alice Walker Edited by Valerie Boyd Publisher Simon and Schuster Alice Walker encourages you to purchase her books from…
Standing in the Ring of Life: Pub day April 12th 2022
Parados en el cuadrilátero de la vida: Día de publicación: abril 12 de 2022 Dream Team: Valerie and Evelyn and Ali Gathering Blossoms Under Fire / Equipo Ideal: Valerie y Evelyn y Ali…
Introducing Alice Walker’s New Children’s Book:
Sweet People Are EverywhereBy Alice Walker Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated book for children ages 4–8 (and readers of all ages) featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, locates the “sweet…
Alice reads from her new children’s book
“Sweet People Are Everywhere”
October 2021Please Join Alice Walker, Crayola and Tra Publishing as Alice reads from her new children’s book, “Sweet People Are Everywhere” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 AT 11 AM PDT Read Along, Draw Along with…
“Nigger” In the Language of Love
En Español “Nigger” In the Language of Love (Turning a poison into medicine) ©2017 by Alice Walker For all those who remind us how this works. Pretty soon we might…
WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU
En Español The name “Lucy,” which appears in the following poem, was given by paleoanthropologists to the fossilized skeleton of the most ancient, recognizably human ancestral figure ever found. A female being…
The Long Road Home Poem for Muhammad Ali
The Long Road Home ©2016 by Alice Walker I am beginning to comprehend the mystery of the gift of suffering. It is true as some have said that it is a crucible in…
Lodestar ©2015 by Alice Walker
Lodestar ©2015 by Alice Walker Here is what I believe Will be the hardest thing To do: To remember That we have A soul. It is so quiet The soul And weighs Almost…
THE CIRCLE
WHAT DOES THE AWAKENED PERSON DO? photo by AP/David Goldman or Reuters/Randall Hill (!) THE CIRCLE ©2015 by Alice Walker I myself do not believe In political parties Comprised, generally, in my experience, of so…
The Energy Of The Wave – For the people of Africa
The Energy Of The Wave For the people of Africa (facing armored tanks and other weapons they did not make) ©2015 by Alice Walker As a child I sensed But did not Grasp…
What do I get for getting old? A Picture Story for the Curious!
From the new book of poems: THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW JOY: Turning Madness Into Flowers Spring 2013 Bicycle dress guard by Simeli Ananda What Do I Get For Getting Old? A Picture Story…
New Poems, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART
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