Rochelle Jewel Shapiro https://rochellejshapiro.com Author and Psychic Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:31:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Dandicot https://rochellejshapiro.com/brother-im-dying-by-edwidge-dandicot/ https://rochellejshapiro.com/brother-im-dying-by-edwidge-dandicot/#respond Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:31:04 +0000 https://rochellejshapiro.com/?p=7645 This true story of the parallel lives and deaths of Dandicot’s primal male figures–her father and her uncle and how they are treated in Haiti […]

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]]> https://rochellejshapiro.com/brother-im-dying-by-edwidge-dandicot/feed/ 0 My dear poet friend, Susan Vespoli, painted my portrait. I will always love it. https://rochellejshapiro.com/my-dear-poet-friend-susan-vespoli-painted-my-portrait-i-will-always-love-it/ https://rochellejshapiro.com/my-dear-poet-friend-susan-vespoli-painted-my-portrait-i-will-always-love-it/#respond Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:34:26 +0000 https://rochellejshapiro.com/?p=7638 The post My dear poet friend, Susan Vespoli, painted my portrait. I will always love it. appeared first on Rochelle Jewel Shapiro.

]]> https://rochellejshapiro.com/my-dear-poet-friend-susan-vespoli-painted-my-portrait-i-will-always-love-it/feed/ 0 Tracy K. Smith, THE UNIVERSE AS PRIMAL SCREAM, built on Yeat’s THE SECOND COMING https://rochellejshapiro.com/tracy-k-smith-the-universe-as-primal-scream-built-on-yeats-the-second-coming/ https://rochellejshapiro.com/tracy-k-smith-the-universe-as-primal-scream-built-on-yeats-the-second-coming/#respond Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:49:40 +0000 https://rochellejshapiro.com/?p=7635 THE UNIVERSE AS PRIMAL SCREAM 5pm on the nose. They open their mouths And it rolls out: high, shrill and metallic. First the boy, then […]

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]]> https://rochellejshapiro.com/tracy-k-smith-the-universe-as-primal-scream-built-on-yeats-the-second-coming/feed/ 0 Amanda Gorman gives me such hope for our country. https://rochellejshapiro.com/https-www-youtube-com-watchvwz4yuevj3y4/ https://rochellejshapiro.com/https-www-youtube-com-watchvwz4yuevj3y4/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:00:12 +0000 https://rochellejshapiro.com/?p=7629

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]]> https://rochellejshapiro.com/https-www-youtube-com-watchvwz4yuevj3y4/feed/ 0 Rogue Agent published my poem, On My Encroaching Blindness https://rochellejshapiro.com/rogue-agent-published-my-poem-on-my-encroaching-blindness/ https://rochellejshapiro.com/rogue-agent-published-my-poem-on-my-encroaching-blindness/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:25:10 +0000 https://rochellejshapiro.com/?p=7626 Just when I was feeling sorry for myself that I haven’t been published in a bit, a bonanza of two poems went live in one […]

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