Alice Walker, health, happiness, and sanity

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker discusses her new poetry collection, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, with NPR's Michel Martin. She talks devastation, loss, seeing the glass half full, and dancing through even the most crippling pain.

Here's an excerpt from the collection:

Calling All Grand Mothers

We have to live
differently

or we
will die
in the same

old ways.

Therefore
I call on all Grand Mothers
everywhere
on the planet
to rise
and take your place
in the leadership
of the world

Come out
of the kitchen
out of the
fields
out of the
beauty parlors
out of the
television

Step forward
& assume
the role
for which
you were
created:
To lead humanity
to health, happiness
& sanity....

Read the rest at NPR.