My Body My Temple

Summary:

Women writers reading their own works about how breast cancer affects their body image

Website:

http://www.mediarites.org/store_BC.htm

Additional Credits and Funding:

Produced as part of The Breast Cancer Monologues with funding from Sound Partners for Community Health, National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission.

Timely on:

April: National Poetry Month

Tones:

Contemplative, Emotional, Intimate

Language:

English

Description:

My Body My Temple first aired as part of the hour-long The Breast Cancer Monologues. This section is from writing workshops in which women with breast cancer wrote and read their poetry about how the disease affects their sense of themselves and their body image.

The opening is a poem read in Spanish.

This four-minute piece has not aired nationally and is a debut piece as a standalone module.

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