Poet Glenis Redmond Fights Through Pain, Both Personal And Historical - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR Arts & Performance
from 2021-08-11T06:00
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Twenty-eight years ago, Glenis Redmond was a clinical counselor for the state of South Carolina and the mother of twin toddler girls when she learned her excruciating condition had a name, Fibromyalgia. After absorbing the ramifications of her diagnosis, she recalls thinking of a prescient line of verse from the poet Lucille Clifton. "'Everyday something has tried to kill me and it's failed,' and it was an awakening of sorts," Redmond recalled. "That poem made me think, 'Well, if you're going to
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