‘i Know Homeless’: ‘portraits And Poetry’ Show Puts A Face To Wrenching Crisis

Bob Highfill, The Record (Stockton)
Thu, 10/17/2019 - 9:12pm

STOCKTON — Lois Thomas knows what it is to be homeless. The stigma, the shame, the despair.Thomas recited a poem she wrote, “I Know Homeless,” during a rehearsal for an upcoming show that nearly brought some of her peers in the Writing for Recovery class to tears.“I travel after daylight dims, my head bows to the glare of the bright, nosey headlights.

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