Bette Dangerous

Bette Dangerous

Where Is the Love - Words to Heal Trauma

‘I don’t know what to say anymore’

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Heidi Siegmund Cuda
Jan 24, 2023
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In 2015, I was invited to a poetry performance at Tom Hayden’s house. My daughter was among the featured poets, and it was there she debuted her poem, Countdown to a School Shooting, written when she was 15 and performed with her team that would go on to win back-to-back national poetry slams.

It was there I learned about the Bertolt Brecht poem I often…

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