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Thirty-five poets, musicians, singers, healers, curanderas, and shamans from twenty countries in seventeen languages share poems, songs, prayers, and blessings for future generations. Featuring uplifting, inspiring work by Joy Harjo (Oklahoma, US), Lorraine Currelley (New York City, US), Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Reykjavik, Iceland), Anne Waldman (New York City, US), Doris Kareva (Tallinn, Estonia), Iris Lican (Sintra, Portugal), Jaouad El Garouge (Morocco), Lee Pennington (Kentucky, US), Andy Willoughby (England), Aurélia Lassaque (France), Vesa Lahti (Finland), Aprilia Zank (Germany), J.M. White (Tennessee, US), Chryssa Velissariou (Greece), Bengt O Björklund (Sweden), Greta Render Whitehead (Kentucky, US), Giulio Tedeschi (Italy), Al Paldrok aka Anonymous Boh (Parnu, Estonia), Wilfred Hildonen (Norway/Finland), Gabor G Gyukics (Hungary), Amber T. Lee (New York City, US), Rani Whitehead (Kentucky, US), Brian Hassett (Canada), Seda Suna Uçakan (Turkey), Theo Dorgan (Ireland), Frank Messina (New Jersey, US), Tanya Lind (Iceland), Jeanette R. K. E. H. Aslaksen (Sápmi/Finland), Julie Easley (England), Eduardo Ritter (Brazil), and Ron Whitehead (Kentucky, US).Profits from this project will benefit Kentucky Refugee Ministries/KRM, a non-profit organization in Louisville, Kentucky dedicated to providing resettlement services to refugees and promoting self-sufficiency and successful integration. Ron Whitehead is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, scholar, professor. He grew up on a farm in Kentucky. He attended The University of Louisville and University of Oxford. As a poet and writer he is the recipient of numerous state, national, and international awards/prizes including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize, The Joshua B. Everett Scholar Award, English Speaking Union Scholarship, The Yeats Club of Oxford's Prize for Poetry. In 2006, Dr. John Rocco (NYC) nominated Ron for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2004, Ron was inducted into Ohio County High School's Hall of Fam