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Voices 2: An Emotional Tribute to the

Civil Rights Movement

By

Maria Tomasinni

 

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Natalia Maria was a member of the Burlington County poets and the International Poetry society. She is an award winning poet and is published in several poetry books like; America’s Most Beloved Poets. This is her second published book of poetry. Her first book of poetry was: Between the Shadows and the Flames. She was nominated as one of the best New International Poets of the Year.

 

She also participated in a program with the Burlington poets at a psychiatric Hospital reading and teaching how to write poetry patients. She often times collaborated with art therapists to assist patients to express their selves by giving voice to a picture and vice versa. She was able to draw on her experience as a psycho therapist to assist people to connect with their feelings and to express their emotions using artistic means; such as poetry and the combination of art and poetry. Natalia’s education made her interested in using poetry in a therapeutic setting with, people recovering from addictions, with incarcerated individuals and with psychiatric patients who were preparing for discharge from an inpatient hospital.


Natalia has been actively involved in the peace movement and attended the largest Peace movement in Holland. She continues her activism by attending lectures at the United Nations in New York City on creating a culture of peace and empowering women in leadership worldwide; women, peace and security. She is a former member of the NGO Peace caucus and she supports the Ctaun-Committee on teaching about the United Nations. She assisted in creating a school in Haiti. The school was named in memorial to her aunt's husband, a pacivist, Dr. Gerald Oster, Ph.D.


She is a graduate of Temple University with a Bachelors of Science (BS), and Master of Science (MS) Degrees; in addition she continued post graduate studies in educational supervision. She studied to become as LDTC; She is a Certified Learning Disabilities Teacher's Consultant with the State of NJ.


Natalia completed Johns Hopkins University’s Alcohol Counseling certification program. She worked as an psychotherapist in the Prison System.

 


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Table of Contents

      When Soul Force Meets Physical Force

      Freedom Is Not Free

      Mountain Of Despair

      Private Moments

      In Solitude, I Am Here

      Stone of Hope

      The Garden of Healing

      Prayer

      What Is A Dream, But A Dream

      The Valley of Shadows

      Flight of the Spirit

      Gun Shots in 1968

      Ocean of Tears (Coretta)

      Is This It?

      My Heart Is Broken

      They Don't Know

      Change For Grace

      Lament

      Legacy of a King

      Angelic Tears

      Remember Me

      We Are Determined

      Am I The Solution For The Resolution

      Emotional Shift

      In My Contemplation

      Valley and Mountain of Despair

      In My Lifetime

 

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

    We Stand

    VOICES

    Tsunami

    Earthquake

    Oh, My Aching Feet

    If Love Were A Color

    Who Is This King?

    Passive Resistance

    The Iron Foot of Oppression

    The Fierce Urgency of Now

    I Am A Human being

    What Do We Want?

    Uprising

    Feeling The Need for Freedom Now

    Lead Me

    I Am The Vision

    Turn The Other Cheek

    March On

    That King Ain't All that

    Cards Are Stacked Up Against Him

        Generated Hate             

    Miracles

    The Dream and The Dreamer

    In My Lifetime

    The Promise, New Light Out of Darkness

    Freedom Riders

    Connections

    Shake Us, Wake Us From This Nightmare

    I Had A Dream

 

 

Read Our Interview With Maria Tomasini

 

 

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