Mary Clark, Writer Mary Clark

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I am reading from the beginning of Chapter Two of Into The Fire: A Poet's Journey through Hell's Kitchen, a memoir of my journey from the arts to community activist in the late 1970s and 1980s. Hell's Kitchen is a West Side neighborhood in Manhattan which has a long and rich history of family, faith, and hard-working people, but also gangs and violence. 

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The 1993 election in New York City was a turning point. Things came to a true inflection point in 1997 when Rudy Giuliani ran for a second term.

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