Bridie Breen

Freedom Writes Bridie Breen

Freedom Writes is an anthology, a fantastical write in protest poetry, a continuation of the story of black freedom rights and an end to oppression in the United States. The poetry reads as soul affirmations for the rights of all oppressed people for civil rights and self-autonomy under God. This book was compiled by Kimberlynne Darby Newton, a Poet and former professor at Alabama State University and Poet Anne Rhodes. The Contributing Poets come from all walks of life, they are teachers, Veterans and disabled Veterans, writers, artists, musicians, singers, photographers, filmmakers, psychotherapists, journalists, students, wives, husbands, parents, and children. Also, this book is international including poets from the U. K., Ireland, Nigeria, Kenya, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and from across the United States. The theme of the Anthology is Freedom, a cry freedom in violent times when people's rights and safety are being infringed upon by an often oppressive systemic undertow in N. A. In the violence of Existential absurdist theatre, the black culture does not have the same structure as the dominant white culture, as people and ideas clash in the idea of what America should be, violence rains down. A posse of wild black horses running in a river, the day . . . the light and water shimmers down, running, running wild, running free, Freedom Writes, a brilliant read.