Mary Clark, Writer: Recent Episodes
Mary Clark
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://literaryeyes.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/sanctuary/
I am reading from the beginning of Chapter Two of Into The Fire: A Poet's Journey through Hell's Kitchen, a memoir of my journey from the arts to community activist in the late 1970s and 1980s. Hell's Kitchen is a West Side neighborhood in Manhattan which has a long and rich history of family, faith, and hard-working people, but also gangs and violence.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://literaryeyes.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/poets-of-our-time/
The 1993 election in New York City was a turning point. Things came to a true inflection point in 1997 when Rudy Giuliani ran for a second term.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://literaryeyes.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/community-snapshots-of-a-political-inflection-point/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://literaryeyes.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/celebrities-tales-of-times-square/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://literaryeyes.wordpress.com/2021/04/08/into-the-fire-a-poets-journey-through-hells-kitchen/