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A portrait taken in North Philly in the 1980s reconnects poet with cherished memories of her own beloved father
To honour Father’s Occasion, The Dialog U.S. requested Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon to replicate on a poem she lately carried out to accompany a 1986 {photograph} by way of Philadelphia photographer Joseph V. Labolito. Williams-Witherspoon, who additionally serves as senior laborer dean of the Heart for the Appearing and Cinematic Arts…