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Welcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. This week we celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas with poetry by Karen Fullett-Christensen.
Welcome to WNIJ's Poetically Yours. This segment showcases poems written by northern Illinois poets. This week features Aurora Poet Laureate Karen Fullett-Christensen.
Karen-Fullett Christensen shares two of her domestic violence awareness poems.
Karen Fullett-Christensen Credit Latrice Murphy Design and Photography Fullett-Christensen has been writing poetry and memory stories since high school, and credits two of her English teachers, Mr. Vespo and Mr. Brown, for their encouragement and support. She has self-published over 20 manuscripts. Her poems and creative non-fiction have appeared in a variety of print and online publications, and are available at no cost to anyone who requests copies. She was born and raised on the North Side of Chicago, in the Albany Park and Budlong Woods neighborhoods. She is a 1968 graduate of Mather High...