My favorite room at the Seattle Art Museum is the one with paintings by Australian Aboriginal artists. I was mesmerized by the forms and colors of every piece on exhibit.
Poetry Teacher of the Year, 1988, awarded by Poets House and NYC Board of Education. I currently work as a consultant for the NYC Department of Education and as an independent curator. Along with my husband, I published three books back in the 90's -- two of which were cited as best Books for the Teen Age by the New York Public Library. (The Place I Call Home: Voices and Faces of Homeless Teens and Jerusalem Mosaic: Young Voices from the Holy City.) Both books have also been cited by the Library of Congress for their "strong and honest voice of the young adult." I also authored A to Z : The Book of Rap & Hip Hop Slang -- with entries that have since been cited by dozens of dictionaries.