This is Candya, who worked with me recently on a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr., at the Hastings Americorps after-school program. Candya is six and writes perfectly–I was amazed at how many words she can spell! She asked me why white people are mean to black people. Who has an answer to that? She also gave me a portrait of myself that she drew. I keep it on my fridge. So stern, and so loving, at such a young age!
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Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.
Weaver's Knot by Glenda Bailey-Mershon 