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What Happened to Baltimore?

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Immortal City, Immortal Heart       Visit the Magic of Horses The Academy of American Poets                                                                                                            by Afaa M. Weaver                                                                                                           Guggenheim Fellow             When the protests erupted in Baltimore in April, 2015, I was doing a one month residency at Jentel Arts retreat for writers and artists, a lovely place etched into the Wyoming landscape. I had one half of the writer's cottage, complete with a gas-lit heater and a comfy chair where I completed by book Spirit Boxing . I was carving out the poems in the last two sections of the book where I attempt to view America's working class imagery as a whole arising from my particularized experience. I was a worker poet for fifteen years, from 1970-1985, as the Golden Age of Capitalism segued into the loss of the country&