Local poet discovers writing later in life-and is still learning

By By Melissa Townsend
Local poet discovers writing later in life-and is still learning
Poet Doris Arrington came to writing in her 50s. Flickr/Graham Binns
Local poet discovers writing later in life-and is still learning
Poet Doris Arrington came to writing in her 50s. Flickr/Graham Binns

Local poet discovers writing later in life-and is still learning

By By Melissa Townsend
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In honor of National Poetry Month Eight Forty-Eight is hearing from local poets. Doris Arrington came to writing in her 50s; twenty years later she’s still going strong.

Doris was born in Mississippi and grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where she still lives. She spoke with producer Melissa Townsend about her writing and the story behind one of her very first poems.