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PO Box 3938

Broken Arrow, OK 74013

Using the richest of language, ONE DAY highlights the complexities facing mankind today. Writing in first person the author opens avenues of understanding by becoming the voice of the people behind the story. From the chains of slavery to the horrors of abuse, from the terror of the battlefield, to the breakdown of the family, a whirlwind of emotions rise and fall as the author embodies an excruciating honesty in a most unexpected format

"ONE DAY"

Life, Love and Controversy in Middle America",

"It All Went Well" - Katrina and the San Diego Fires

"Revoked" - Blackwater in Iraq

"Diabolical Mass" - Genocide in Darfur

"Earth" - Global Warming

"Martyr" - The War in Iraq

"Bastard" - Discrimination

"Epilogue to a Slave Girl" - Race and American History

"Perfect X" - Ethnicity

"Trafficked" - Drug trafficking

In this collection the author openly discusses, war, slavery, race, health care, crime, religion, AIDS, cancer, spousal and child abuse, mental illness, suicide, love, and moral and immoral relationships. Through a wonderful provocative prose, she makes their voices heard. The chapters on life, include such pieces as

"Recital",

"At Eight",

"Cancer"

"I Miss It"

and the title piece

"One Day"

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

OCCUPY TULSA

November 5, 2011

Speaker

Tulsa, Oklahoma

71st and Memorial

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Oklahoma Laborfest

Downtown Main Library

AFL-CIO

August 25, 2011

Speaker

Signing and Sales

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July 30, 2010

Glenpool Convention Center

Grand Opening Expo

Signing and sales

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Chocolate and Blues Expo

November 20, 2010

10:00am - 4:00pm

Event Center of the River Spirit Casino
8330 Riverside Pkwy
Tulsa, OK 74136 US

Tulsa Oklahoma

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GoKALY'S Women's Event

Book Sales and Signing

November 13, 2010

11:00am to 2:00pm

Fontana Shopping Center

Agora House

51st and Memorial

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November 6, 2010

Book Signing

BORDERS BOOK STORE

81st and Yale

Tulsa Oklahoma

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October 14, 2010

SHIRLEYHALLPOET on Blogtalk Radio

Blogtalk Radio Interview

8:30 Central time

Click on the link below

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vocalink

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May 27, 2010

Poetry & Dance

Featuring poetry of SHIRLEY HALL

and Prima Ballerina Nina Mansen

dancing to her poem "KNOW ME"

Equality Center

Tulsa Oklahoma

5:00 - 9:00

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GoKaly Event May 16, 2010

Poetry Reading

Fontana Shopping Center

Agora House

51st and Memorial

4:30 - 7:00

Tulsa Oklahoma

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LITERATI INDIE BOOK FAIR

May 15, 2010

IAO Gallery

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

10:30 - 2:30

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Poetry Reading

SCISSORTAIL WRITING FESTIVAL

April 3, 2010

East Central University

1100 E. 14th Street

Ada, Oklahoma

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2009 TULSA LITERATI INDIE BOOK FAIR

Saturday, November 14, 2009
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

McBIRNEY MANSION

1414 South Galveston in Tulsa
Free Admission
www.indiebookfair.com

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EAST COAST PROFESSOR'S TOUR

Jul 2009

Book Signing

LITERATI INDIE BOOK FAIR

NOON TO 8 P.M.,

SATURDAY, JUNE 27,2009

IAO GALLERY, 811 N. BROADWAY

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK

First Edition:

SM Group Publishing
P.O. Box 60116
Oklahoma City, OK 73146

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Book Signing and Reading

NUBIAN HERITAGE ARTS

"Village Drum Fest 2009

Saturday, June 13, 2009

10am - 8pm

2134 N. Madison Place

Tulsa, Oklahoma

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BROKEN ARROW SENIOR

CITIZENS EXPO

April 2009

Broken Arrow Community Center

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

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BROKEN ARROW

BUSINESS WOMENS ASSOC. EXPO

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

TARP CHAPEL

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

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SCISSORTAIL

CREATIVE WRITING FESTIVAL

April 2-4, 2009

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

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Author Exposes Nocturnal Voices Through Poetry and Verse

Tulsa, Oklahoma – November 15, 2009 –

“LISTEN”, by author Shirley Hall,

Forward by Constance Stadler, Phd.

“Listen”, takes a reader deep into the conscientious of the socially, economically, and culturally challenged of the world. Confronting the communal stigmas of not fitting in, “LISTEN” is a first person journey into the poignant lives of those who fail to flourish in today’s society.

In this collection of poems the author compels us to look at the mistreated and enslaved. Hopeless and helpless, abused and disenfranchised, their stories scrolled ticker tape style across the bottom of our screens. The author forces us to acknowledge and at times concede to the darkness that masks their faces. An excerpt from one of her poem’s, Obsessed:

A stairway calls and I ascend

knees fumbling

A heart beats faster than

a pulse records

I climb and climb again

in search of answers

Oh holy mother

hear my desperate call.

Upon the roof I kneel

- the rain oppressing

Two tear soaked cheeks

sustaining sleepless eyes

With praying hands I cry

and beg for mercy

Toward darkened skies

of shapes and sounds I bow

Fearing the infinite in ourselves, “LISTEN” engulfs us in screams that get louder, emotions that clash with understanding, and a whirlwind of confrontations, that marginalize a society of real people, attempting to live real lives. Rich in enlightenment, yet dark and enticing, “LISTEN” is for real people living real lives. Although the author’s work trends toward academia, “LISTEN” is an awakening that shines a light on the portico that separates those who think they “have” from those who are sure they “have not”.

War, politics, race, global warming, abuse, death, religion, justice, equality, freedom, discrimination, and more.