Rest in peace Claude Sitton
who has died
at the age of 89.
Even if he had not received
due recognition
in the form of a Pulitzer Prize
for his on-the-ground
civil rights reporting
for the News & Observer
in this poet's home state
of North Carolina
his work would have been
no less important
just as those
who were ever referred to
as the so-called huddled masses
if at all.
This poem © 2015 Emily Cooper.
just as those
who were ever referred to
as the so-called huddled masses
if at all.
This poem © 2015 Emily Cooper.
