Poets & Writers Theater
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“The resilient founders established the school, that they polished into a beautiful jewel.” Irene Hicks, a South Carolina native and poet living with Parkinson’s disease, reads her poem to commemorate her alma mater the Mather School, a school created by Rachel Crane Mather for the daughters of liberated slaves in the late 1860s. Brookdale Senior Living and Colorado nonprofit Wish of a Lifetime partnered with Essity to provide resources for Hicks to write her poem and continue to teach poetry to seniors.
Tags: Poetry | Irene Hicks | Wish of a Lifetime | Mather School
