Author Becomes Voice for Middle Class

One Day by Shirley Hall is a collection of poems which highlights the issues and challenges facing mankind in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. Politics, religion, socio-economic issues, and a need for natural resources led the nation to numerous campaigns on the battlefield, and on the middle class. Issues challenging the poor were world-wide issues, and in an attempt to spread democracy; conflicts became the order of the day.

   In time the war on the middle class extended beyond the assumed battleground. Despite a growing economy in many nations, adversity and catastrophe abounded. An uprising of hatred led to genocides, racial cleansings, and the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children. Victims of natural disasters at home and abroad found themselves suffering at the hands of inefficient governments with race, financial standings and socio-economics determining the level and timeliness of assistance. Through poetry the author became a voice for the middle class, the displaced and the poor, and in time began blogging this controversial poetry.

   Approached by a publisher who appreciated her message and believed in what she was doing, “One Day” became the author’s way of making a difference and taking a stand.

  One Day: Life, Love and Controversy in Middle America is available at Amazon.com and everywhere books are sold.

   In this collection the author openly discusses, war, slavery, race, health care, crime, religion, AIDS, cancer, spousal and child abuse, mental illness, suicide, love, and moral and immoral relationships.  Through a wonderful provocative prose, she makes their voices heard

"It All Went Well" - Katrina and the San Diego Fires

"Revoked" - Blackwater in Iraq

"Diabolical Mass" - Genocide in Darfur

"Earth" - Global Warming

"Martyr" – Children as Soldiers

"Bastard" – Social Discrimination

"Epilogue to a Slave Girl" - Race and American History

"Perfect X" - Ethnicity

"Trafficked" - Drug trafficking

“Cancer” – Health Care

“The Pledge” – Immigration in America

   Although this project has trended toward academia, ONE DAY has something for everyone. This collection crosses all educational, political, and social genres. It is for anyone interested in hearing the voice of the people behind the story. The subtitle says it all: Life, Love and Controversy in Middle America.

   Using the richest of language, ONE DAY highlights the complexities facing mankind today. Writing in first person the author opens avenues of understanding by becoming the voice of the people behind the story. From the chains of slavery to the horrors of abuse, from the terror of the battlefield, to the breakdown of the family, a whirlwind of emotions rise and fall as the author embodies an excruciating honesty in a most unexpected format.

About the Author

Shirley Hall was born Shirley Ann Howard in Cleveland Ohio. She retired from corporate America in 2006, and currently lives in Oklahoma with her husband and daughter. Shirley began writing short stories as a child and later turned to poetry.  Inspired by the writings of Shakespeare, Longfellow, Kahil Gibran, and Langston Hughes, she began submitting her work to venues within her community.

Her writing projects range from corporate communications, to speech writing, to personal greeting cards. Shirley has presented her poems in schools, colleges, churches, and by special invitation to the ambassador at the American Embassy in Spain. Her extended education includes an array of colleges and universities both in the United States and abroad.  Majoring in music, theater, and later in business, Shirley aggressively pursued careers in each of these venues.

Additional credits include publication in various college presses, magazines and community newspapers. An advocate for peace, freedom, and equality Shirley challenges religious, social and political agendas through her controversial poetry and essays. Today her poems are read and appreciated worldwide.

Shirley’s favorite quote comes from Marianne Williamson’s Return to Love –“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

CONTACT:         Shirley Hall Poet, LLC

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