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Denise R. Ervin

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A Glimpse of My Soul, a poetry chapbook published in 2003, was Denise's first publication. She also pens short stories and a novel entitled, Prelude to Praise: A Word of Testimony, the first promotional project of The Write Ingredients. Denise graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1996. She completed her B.A. in English at Wayne State in 2001 and her M.B.A. in Marketing at Davenport in 2006. With this training, Denise will seek to combine her sense of social responsibility with her love of the written and spoken word to influence future generations. Of her gift she says, “I can only describe my words as soulful. My soul is full of the glory of God, my ancestors` struggles, my present challenges, my forthcoming accomplishments and all ...more

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Denise R. Ervin This is a great question! Without giving away too many details, one of my works in progress explores the idea of ancestry. As an African-American, I a…moreThis is a great question! Without giving away too many details, one of my works in progress explores the idea of ancestry. As an African-American, I am a descendent of the group of people who were untethered from their homeland, their heritage, their language, things that made them unique. In so many ways, we have been searching for our roots for generations. I've simply found a thread in my lineage to pull on. The writing is in the unraveling.(less)
Denise R. Ervin There was nothing extraordinary about the time or space the two boys lived in, nothing of note about their lives except for the fact that they had end…moreThere was nothing extraordinary about the time or space the two boys lived in, nothing of note about their lives except for the fact that they had ended centuries before. The young woman whose house they now haunted spent her life vacillating between fear of them and gratitude for the lessons their deaths taught her without leaving her the same wounds.(less)
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“Beyond measure and dimension
Beyond comprehension and speech
Beyond perfection and expectation
Beyond faith and belief
Beyond anything I’ve ever known
Beyond my imagination’s reach
Beyond the scope of my mind’s eye
Beyond anything that schools teach
Beyond reason and explanation
Beyond faithfulness and truth
Beyond passion’s incapacitation
Beyond the Spirit and Its fruit
Past all that I know or think
Past my sanity’s brink
Past my visions of paradise
Past cordial, polite and nice
Past all that I ever knew was right
Past the limits of all my might
Past my world of dreams
Past what it all seems
Past openness and understanding
Past faith, grace notwithstanding
Across the sands of time
Where the blame and glory are all mine”
Denise R. Ervin, Prelude to Praise: A Word of Testimony

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