If you had to use only one word to describe Virgie Broussard Pradia you might use talented. She is very versatile and has achieved success as a teacher, dancer, choreographer, performer, producer and a poet. She is the author of "Poetry The Way I did It" and "Five Poems Celebrating Man: Remarkable Man." A retired teacher, Dr. Pradia reads her work to a wide range of audience. Virgie Broussard Pradia had much to say about love; starting with the mood of love, meeting again once love was lost, and playing the love game.

These collection of verses is a chant that echoes universally, one heart capable of bearing the weight that can drown to doom's depths yet able to lift itself to heights and live again. This is love in simple terms, understandable and without frills, brutal and unpretentious, flavored with complications and heartbreak. In one's lifetime of love, one of these instances cited and honestly expressed by talented Virgie Broussard Pradia, is bound to touch the humanity of its subject. Both elements of playfulness and serious commitment balance each other in her poetry. In essence, love multiplies itself, in verses, to fill us all.

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Editor, Poems of the World

"Your poetry always fill me with joy and hope. These poems are deep, and they send such a beautiful message of pride and strength of our black men Keep writing."-Gwen Antoine, English Teacher

Never before has a female author depicted a male voice that is so poignant and thought-provoking. These poems express the struggle of man and the need to succeed.

The author takes the reader through a glimpse of what it was like for her while taking a class in poetry writing. She also reveals the types of poems she was writing before she took the poetry writing class. Her poems take you through a roller coaster of emotions from "Tragedy and God" to "Free as a Bird." During her journey of writing and reading she rediscovered the words of the great Langston Hughes, and it inspired her to write about her blackness and her family stories, and it opened up her heart to write a letter to reconnect with her daddy, who left this earth much too soon.