In Verse: Women of Troy, Continued
Susan B.A. Somers-Willet wrote a poem about DJ Guerrin, another one of Troy’s single mothers struggling to get by.
“In Verse” is Studio 360’s series documenting the lives of the working poor through poetry and photography. It was created by Lu Olkowski and Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review.
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