Vote In Mourning and Memory

Since Rita May Recine's poems concluded the In Mourning and Memory contest, I would like to post information about voting.

Any one may vote, but send me your vote via Facebook email or thesongis@gmail.com .  Please vote for one poem, especially if the author has more than one poem.  In addition, you may vote only once. There will be a prize.  Since we have both political and apolitical work, we may have two winners.

I encourage you to ask your friends and family to vote!

Voting will end on July 15.

The eligible poems are below:

The contest began with Quaker poet Martin Willits, Jr.'s "Epistle on Healing":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2014/12/epistle-on-healing.html

Ed Schelb contributed several poems here:
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2014/12/mourning-and-sense-of-martyrdom.html

Catfish McDaris' flash fiction "Sweet Jesus" and poem "Beware of PoPo" are here:
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/01/flash-fiction-and-poem-by-catfish.html

See the link below for his "Elizabeth," "Animal Crackers," "17 Cents a Year," and "700 People Dancing Somewhere":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/while-im-counting-votes.html

Amber Smithers contributed two poems "A Lullaby to My Son" and "Angry Black Woman":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-mothers-voice-amber-smithers-and.html
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/05/amber-smithers-returns.html

Joan McNerney's "For the Mothers" is here:
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-mothers-voice-amber-smithers-and.html

See the link below for Jerry A. Scuderi's "Do You Recognize Him?", "Broken Then Crumbled," "Tiny Hands," and "Love and Justice":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/01/more-in-memory-and-sorrow.html

Jerry's "Men in Blue" is here:
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-mourningmemory-contest-continuesand.html

Kavon Ward contributed "I Am Michael Brown," our first spoken word piece:
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/02/kavon-wards-i-am-michael-brown.html

Charles Clifford Brown III provided another perspective on mourning and memory with "Promise to Momma" and "For Dad":  http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/promise-to-momma-and-for-dad-by-charles.html

David Pointer shifted the contest in a new direction with "Beyond Eugenics Laws":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-mourningmemory-contest-continuesand.html

Bea Garth draws our attention to her nephew Robert here:
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/while-im-counting-votes.html

Avis D. Matthews remembers a visit to her young aunt with "Chicago, 1971, for my aunt DeWana":  http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/in-place-of-memory-trying-not-to-be-in.html

Doug Mathewson contributed "Which Goodbye," "Sequenced Dreams," and "Woman's Way":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/which-goodbye-and-other-work-by-doug.html

Miss Kiane refocused us with "Grass Don't Grow in the Ghetto" and "In Route to Metro":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/miss-kiane.html

Her "Tribute to Maya" is here: http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/more-from-miss-kiane.html

Gary Malone added his "Young, Black, and Unarmed":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/04/by-gary-malone-warning-explicit-language.html

Here is Regina A. Walker's "Musings":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/05/regina-walkermusings.html

Mary Jo Balistreri contributed "Star Light, Star Bright" and "Stained Glass":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/06/in-mourning-and-memory-by-mary-jo.html

Rita Marie Recine concluded the contest with "Tears for a Nation," "For My Father," "Heaven Must Be Rocking Out Tonight," and "A Salute to BB King -- Remembering 16":
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/06/rita-marie-racine.html


Finally, here is some voting music for you:

I haven't posted any Jimmy Smith yet, so here is his "Sermon":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=885cqjqQU4A

Here is Art Blakey and the Messengers' "I Remember Clifford":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr7wcGmh12A

Remember to vote!