I'm not quite sure why April was chosen. As one poet living with HIV for ten years, I thank my peers for their love and their honesty and their truth. AIDS remains with us, alas, but is losing its power to terrorize. Like any bully, it thrives on fear and intimidation. Standing up to it in any and every way we can cuts it down to size.
Holistic therapies help.
Strength of spirit helps. So too do words. And words wielded in poetic form have been emboldening as well as healing. The story of the past twenty years is incomplete without its poetry. A Sampler Dennis Rhodes is a poet and writer who lives in Provincetown and who serves as Poetry Editor of Body Positive magazine.