This recent Martin Luther King Day, esteemed award winning poet and dear friend, Connie Norgren, passed away. Aside from her wonderful books, including Falling Again, Same Boat and Tonight’s Quiet, she left behind a book of yet unpublished poems. With permission from Connie’s husband, artist Tom Keough, I read a selection of them on the Arts Express radio program.
To hear the poems as broadcast on Arts Express radio yesterday on WBAI FM NYC, click on the mp3 link or little triangle above.
Connie was my beloved Aunt. I miss her dearly. Some days, the grief rolls over me like a giant wave. I know it’s coming, yet, then I don’t. Rest in peace dear Aunt Connie, you changed our lives. ~Matthew