Sacred Mary Lou - Carter, Fabu Phillis
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Sacred Mary Lou is a book of poetry based on Mary Lou William's Mass for Peace. Each of these originial poems by Poet Fabu is written to connect words to William's original compositions. Mary's Mass was published in 1971 and introduced jazz into the traditional Catholic Mass. The first 25 poems reflect Poet Fabu's poetic interpretation of Williams' music and the last eight poems are Poet Fabu's responses to the Mass.

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Sacred Mary Lou is a book of poetry based on Mary Lou William's Mass for Peace. Each of these originial poems by Poet Fabu is written to connect words to William's original compositions. Mary's Mass was published in 1971 and introduced jazz into the traditional Catholic Mass. The first 25 poems reflect Poet Fabu's poetic interpretation of Williams' music and the last eight poems are Poet Fabu's responses to the Mass.
Autorenporträt
Fabu Phillis Carter, is an artist professionally known as Fabu in Madison, Wisconsin. She is a poet, columnist, storyteller, and teaching artist who writes to encourage, inspire and remind. Selected as the first African American to become a Madison Poet Laureate (2008-2012), she continues to share the Black experience living in the South, the Midwest and in Africa. She served as poetry editor for Umoja Magazine and Madison Magazine. In 2019, she was poetry editor for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets annual edition. She currently serves as poetry editor for the Capitol City Hues and is a culture columnist for the Cap Times newspaper For the past five years, Fabu has worked with Gary Glazner and the Alzheimer's Poetry Project (New York) sharing poetry with seniors at six facilities. Her traveling poetry exhibit, Poet Fabu in Wisconsin, (2016-2018) took framed poetry into churches, community centers, libraries and other public spaces. She is a teaching artist with the Overture Center for the Arts and a well-known Wisconsin poet-in-residence. She is a recipient of fellowships from Dane Arts, Madison Jazz Consortium, Madison Arts Commission and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Fabu is the author of four books of poetry, Poems, Dreams and Roses (Madison Arts Commission, 2009), In Our Own Tongue, (University of Nairobi Press, 2011), Journey to Wisconsin: African American Life in Haiku (Parallel Press, 2011), and Love Poems (Ironer's Press, 2016). Journey to Wisconsin...won an Outstanding Achievement in Poetry award by the Wisconsin Library Association. She is a Pushcart nominee in poetry with poems in Rosebud, PMS, Callaloo and the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. Fabu is currently working on Remember Me: Mary Lou Williams in Poetry about the great jazz woman pianist, composer and arranger. Her website is www.artistfabu.com.