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.

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

2009 Calender of Events 

Book Signing

LITERATI INDIE BOOK FAIR

NOON TO 8 P.M.,

SATURDAY, JUNE 27

IAO GALLERY, 811 N. BROADWAY

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK

Book Signing and Reading

NUBIAN HERITAGE ARTS

"Village Drum Fest 2009

Saturday, June 13, 2009

10am - 8pm

2134 N. Madison Place

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Book signing and reading

SCISSORTAIL

CREATIVE WRITING FESTIVAL

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

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Look inside "ONE DAY"

Preface

    One Day is a collection of poems which highlights the issues and challenges facing mankind in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. Politics, religion, socio-economic issues, and a need for natural resources led to numerous campaigns on the battlefield, and on the middle class.

   Issues challenging the poor and the middle class were world wide issues, and in an attempt to spread democracy; conflicts became the order of the day.

   The war on the middle class extended beyond the assumed battleground. Despite a growing economy in many nations, adversity and catastrophe abounded. An uprising of hatred led to genocides, racial cleansings, and the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

   Victims of natural disasters at home and abroad found themselves suffering at the hands of inefficient governments with race, financial standings and socio-economics determining the level and timeliness of assistance.

   In this collection I openly discuss, war, slavery, race relations, health care, crime, religion, AIDS, cancer, spousal and child abuse, mental illness, suicide, love, and moral and immoral relationships.

   Although I have not personally experienced many of these hardships, I have chosen, through my poetry to make these voices heard.

   Peace, freedom, equality and understanding are global issues. “One Day” is my way of making a difference and taking a stand.

The author's favorite quote comes from Marianne Williamson’s Return to Love –

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

Cover Design and Photography

by

Shirley Howard Hall

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