Heroes In All Sizes & Shapes.

Everyone once in a while I like to do a post about heroes. Everyday heroes.

They come as young as eight years old:

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/15/oklahoma-third-grader-delivers-baby-brother-with-help-from-grea/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-sb-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%7C201555

They can be famous or talented.

http://www.theboot.com/2011/02/14/craig-morgan-rescue-house-fire/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl4%7Csec3_lnk1%7C201337

Or they can just be someone starting out to honoring her mother for a pre-set period of time and being so touched by the action that she not only can't stop giving a hundred dollars a day to strangers but that she serves as inspiration of teachers and students.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/02/portland_woman_who_gave_away_1.html

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WHO AM I?

I was born in 1917 and died in 2000 and although Bill has heard of me he didn't know much about my background. I am a Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry and was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Mr mother was a former school teacher who left teaching for marriage and motherhood, and my father was the son of a runaway slave who fought in the Civil War, had given up his ambition to become a doctor to work as a janitor because he could not afford to attend medical school. My enthusiasm for reading and writing was encouraged by my parents. My father provided a desk and bookshelves, and my mother took took me to meet Harlem Renaissance poets Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. I published my first poem in a children's magazine at the age of thirteen. When I was sixteen years old, I had compiled a portfolio of around seventy-five published poems. I was once named one the “Ten Young Women of the Year” in Mademoiselle magazine. I was invited at age forty-five by JFK to read at a Library of Congress poetry festival. I was also inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and was was presented with the National Medal of Arts. Other awards I received included the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. I was awarded more than seventy-five honorary degrees from colleges and universities worldwide. I was married and had to children. Have you ever been on A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE? Go there and answer the question, Who Am I?