A very dear friend asked Loretta, "When are you going to write a
novel and make some real money? You have some great ideas." Her
answer for now is this. Novelists take ideas and create stories.
Poets take a word and create a universe. If one is blessed to be
both, what a gift they are to the world. One day she hopes to write
a novel. But today she is a poet and music teacher at Reagan
Elementary in Odessa, Texas. She graduated from Ector High School,
received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas Tech
University and earned a Master's of Elementary Education from the
University of Texas at the Permian Basin. Loretta is active in her
community through membership in organizations such as Texas Music
Educators Association, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the
Permian Basin Poetry Society. She is also a member of the Poetry
Society of Texas, the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, the Poetry
Society of Oklahoma, Abilene Writer's Guild, the National
Federation of Poetry Societies, and the Texas Mountain Trail
Writers. Loretta believes kindness is a language in and of itself,
she hopes to speak it fluently. She also believes when children
speak, listen. There are treasures in the syntax of their
innocence. Endorsements: Loretta Walker's Word Ghetto is a rich
multi-dimensional kaleidoscope of Life, turning your mind and
senses like the Milky Way galaxy, while freeing your heart to
embrace your Oneness. Who would have thought Kali, the Black
Goddess, was living in West Texas disguised as Loretta Walker? And
like Kali, Loretta Walker crushes your separateness with her
enchanting dance of Life through the Word Ghetto. Read it and be
free. -George E. James, Author of Peeling the Onion: Poems of
Spiritual Awakening and Copperhead: Tantric Lessons on Love.
Loretta Diane Walker writes with compassionate wisdom and
insight-her poems restore humanity. -Naomi Shihab Nye Loretta
Walker's Word Ghetto is an astounding book, full of wisdom,
compassion, and masterfully woven word magic. Her language speaks
with a rich tapestry of emotion, and her poems sing like a
saxophone playing the music of her soul. Loretta Walker's vision is
huge - she speaks for a whole community of people who are
marginalized by the circumstances of their birth. Her poems offer
healing, vision and hope." -Diane Frank, Author of Blackberries in
the Dream House and Entering the Word Temple In this accomplished
book, Loretta Diane Walker, poet, musician and teacher, draws us
into her word music, and convinces us to inhabit her deepest
concerns -children, race in America, pain and forgiveness, the
changing body, the open soul-to revel in language and life with
her, to wonder and to grieve. Walker finds beauty so thoroughly
entrenched in the quotidian, we are glad to enter her world, even
though it is not untarnished. Her fierce poems temper hope with
honesty, conviction with clarity of vision. Startlingly fresh
without posturing or distraction, they pull us from whatever
routine threatens to dull our senses. From the tenderness of the
teacher to her young students, through memories of her childhood,
and her involvement in the lived experiences of others, she holds a
mirror to the revelations of a grounded life. -Mary Kay Rummel,
Author of What's Left is the Singing
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