POETRY AND PREVENTION

About the Book

Poetry and Prevention is the attempt of the author to become a more responsible husband, father and family member. It’s the attempt of the author to become a responsible public health behavioral scientist. It is the author’s attempt to not only practice what he preaches, but also to put it into print. It is written for children of all ages and stages. I often remind my children that their health is their wealth, and their wealth is their health!

About the Author

Ira E. Harrison, a.k.a. Dr. Poet, was an Activist, Anthropologist, and Author during the 1960s, searching for Justice, Peace, Truth, and Understanding! (BA, Morehouse College, MA, Atlanta University, Ph.D., Syracuse University, MPH, Johns Hopkins University). The text herein reflects this! It is not about the 60s! It is the 60s! Written In and During the Sixties! Not looking back over my shoulder, but standing, studying, writing, marching, protesting, and being arrested! This is before Black became Beautiful, Blacks became African Americans, the “N” word was buried, and while Poverty was being estimated, and escalated! These Essays and Poems appeared in the journal Here and Now, except for a poem or two, that paradigms and paradoxes us from Viet Nam to Iraq. Poems have appeared in The Phoenix, The Pegasus, America Sings, Recapit, Scrip Tania, International Students Association Newsletter at Syracuse University, Here and Now (Dayton, Ohio), Context, Homework’s: Book of Tennessee Writers, All Around Us: Poems from the Valley, New Millennium Writings, THE WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN AND THE WASHINGTON TRIBUE, The Reach of Song, and Peaceful Poetry to Love Your Societal Consciousness. He has published six books of poetry: They/M: Beautiful Black Women, POP: Poems on Parenting, The Mothers, Acts of Joy: the Poetry of a Relationship, B.A.A.D. (Beautiful African American Daughters), and Poetry & Prevention: A Little Ounce is Worth. Harrison has served as board member of the Knoxville Writers Guild, as treasurer of the Georgia Poetry Society, facilitator of the Southwest Regional Library Poetry Group, Poetry Director of the Burbank Senior Artists Colony, and a member of the Academy of American Poets.