Shirley Bradley LeFlore Foundation
An intergenerational local arts consortium in St. Louis
On April 24th, the Shirley Bradley LeFlore Foundation and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation launched a powerful new partnership with The Art of Conversation—a night filled with poetry, legacy, and community. Relive the magic with our full event recap..
In 1995, motivated by the successes of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the Academy of American Poets established National Poetry Month, which officially launched on April 1, 1996.
This National Poetry Month, I celebrate the life, the legacy, and the luminous spirit of my mother, the late St. Louis Poet Laureate Emeritus Shirley Bradley Price LeFlore A poet, performer, educator, and psychologist, she was a force of nature—prolific, profound, and unwavering in her commitment to the power of words and their connection to…