Stateside for Friday, April 17, 2020
Today on Stateside, we talk to a Detroit elementary school teacher who has been getting online every night for story time with her students. Plus, a funeral director tells us what’s changed and what hasn’t about the work of helping with life’s final transition during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As students and teachers struggle to stay connected, one teacher in Detroit gets online everynight for storytimeStateside’s conversation with Voncile Campbell
- Voncile Campbell is a elementary school master math teacher in Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Poetry for the pandemic: Leelanau County Poet on isolation and community
Stateside’s conversation with Anne-Marie Oomen
- Anne-Marie Oomen is a poet and teaches creative writing at Interlochen College of Creative Arts.
- This segment was originally broadcast on April 9, 2020.
Kelly Fordon has the answer: a new story collection from metro Detroit writer
Stateside’s conversation with Kelly Fordon
- Keith Taylor is a book critic for Michigan Radio. He reviewed I Have the Answer by Kelly Fordon.
- This segment was originally broadcast on April 9, 2020.
Grief without funerals: COVID-19 is changing how we say goodbye
Stateside’s conversation with Thomas Lynch
- Thomas Lynch is a poet, funeral director, and president at Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors.
High school students share how they’re coping in quarantineAn audio postcard produced by Michigan Radio's Rachel Ishikawa
- Michigan Radio's Rachel Ishikawa produced this audio postcard with voicemails from students at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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