"To Kill a Mockingbird" with Special Guest Dawn Leas

A Reel Page Turner welcomes Dawn Leas on a very special episode featuring the absolute classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." The Harper Lee novel is proclaimed as one of the greatest novels of all time and won the Pulitzer Prize! The film adaptation is a classic in its own right! It features Gregory Peck in the Oscar winning role of Atticus Finch. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and was nominated for Best Picture.

More about Dawn Leas:
Dawn Leas is the author A Person Worth Knowing (Foothills Publishing), Take Something When You Go (Winter Goose Publishing), and I Know When to Keep Quiet, (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in New York Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Literary Mama, The Pedestal Magazine, SWWIM, and elsewhere. She’s a writing coach, manuscript consultant, arts educator, and editorial advisor for River and South Review. She’s also a back-of-the pack runner, newbie hiker, salt-water lover, and mom of two grown sons.
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Poem by Dawn originally published in "A Person Worth Knowing" published by FootHills Publishing.

why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird

They say, daughter,

that children should be seen – not heard.

 I say, daughter, speak up! Let them hear 

your voice rattle the windows of Main Street.

 They say, daughter, listen to your teachers

and their chalked-caked books.

 I say, daughter, get your own hands dirty. Read a book, 

newspaper, magazine, no matter your age.

 They say, daughter, girls wear dresses 

not brother's hand-me-down overalls.

 I say, daughter, dresses or britches, 

pressed or patched, do not make the person.

 They say, daughter, you are unschooled, 

unpredictable like a thunderstorm,  a tornado.

 I say, daughter, you have been more rock 

than shriveling stream, sturdy oak than willow.

 They say, daughter, shield the child

no need for her to see the ugly side of town.

 I say, daughter, open your eyes  - from courtroom 

balcony to Radley front porch to tense street

 on a summer afternoon to a dark October 

night. These are the places you will learn 

 why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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