Description:
Observations about love, politics, race, and all the many joys and sorrows of surviving each day with grace and self-reflection in poems that vibrate off the page.
Brief description: Georgette M. Norman is a writer of prose and poetry (for mental gymnastics and peace of mind) since childhood. She has published in several issues of the Cruzan Satellite, a 1986 anthology of new poets; Catalyst, a magazine of heart and mind, Salon literary arts magazine; and First Draft, the journal of the Alabama Writer's Forum. In 1986 she completed a Black woman's calendar/appointment book chronicling the achievements of Black women; a two-year calendar was published in 1991. In 1993 she self-published her first book of poems, From These Roots, Poems by Georgette Norman. Georgette founded and served as executive director of the Alabama African American Arts Alliance under the auspices of the Alabama State Council of the Arts and was the first director of Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum. She sees herself as an observer and active participant in life and believes each person's life to be their self-portrait, their masterpiece.