DODGING BULLIES - Charles Becker

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Résumé :
This memoire in poetry, Dodging Bullies, is a chapbook about growing up and into being an out gay man, and then living enhanced surrounded by like-experienced friends. These poems are about the healing power of language and the graceful sense of becoming old, always with the hope there could be, would be, more acceptance. Some of these poems were finalists or honorable mentions selected by Passager Journal, Orchard Street Press, and Rush Magazine.

Biographie:
Charlie Becker is a retired special education teacher and speech pathologist who now studies, writes, and guest-lectures poetry with the Community Literature Initiative in Los Angeles. His poems are typically about art, nature, and friendships. Some of Charlie's poems have been published by the following journals: The Comstock Review, Passager Journal, The Dandelion Review, Quiet Diamonds (Orchard Street Press), and Oyster River Pages. He lives in Laguna Woods, California.

Sommaire:
This memoire in poetry, Dodging Bullies, is a chapbook about growing up and into being an out gay man, and then living enhanced surrounded by like-experienced friends. These poems are about the healing power of language and the graceful sense of becoming old, always with the hope there could be, would be, more acceptance. Some of these poems were finalists or honorable mentions selected by Passager Journal, Orchard Street Press, and Rush Magazine. ...