A reader contacted me through Facebook and asked me to help her find her gateway poem.

1 min readApr 13, 2018

A reader contacted me through Facebook and asked me to help her find her gateway poem. The three words she used to describe herself were: woman, travel, culture. Here are the three poems I recommended:

I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young Lee

She begins, and my grandmother joins her.

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W O M A N - Nikki Giovanni by st64

she wanted to be a blade / of grass amid the fields / but he wouldn't agree / to be a dandelion / she wanted ...

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I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young Lee

She begins, and my grandmother joins her.

W O M A N - Nikki Giovanni by st64

she wanted to be a blade / of grass amid the fields / but he wouldn't agree / to be a dandelion / she wanted ...

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond - somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

Written by Tamara Gane

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