Hookers in the Playground
A Newark Mother’s Cry For Peace
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No one Called
If this be
What they call peaceful
Will it give me a pound,
Or slap me five
This is the first time
I really felt the breeze
As it swept my locks aside
If this be
What they call livin’
Will it keep my kids alive
This is the one time I slept
Soundly
Had no stirrings in the night
And it amazes me,
Death turns at three
Yet, I woke up to sunlight
This must be
What they call Sunday
For it was chicken that got fried
No midnight knocks
Cops, bustin’ locks
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About the Book
"Since the Children have become things that you choose to discard, let me show you the things which were left in my yard."
“Hookers in the Playground, A Newark Mother's Cry for peace.”
Kelli Koontz Wilson
About the Author
Kelli Koontz-Wilson is a native and resident of
She has worked for the National Council of Alcohol and Drug Dependence as a Project Advisor for the Teen Institute of the Garden State (TIGS) where she studied and administered Drug Prevention methodologies.
She has served as a Teaching Artist as well as a Program Coordinator for Arts Education at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). After leaving NJPAC, she focused on her own Company which would directly assist the immediate needs of inner city schools & Children.
She and her husband formed Melanin Enterprises in 1997. Presently Melanin Enterprises LLC includes Project PULSE: Presentations for Understanding and Learning through Skits and Expression. She writes, performs, and provides students with a forum to create their own presentations that focus on the needs of the community.
Frustrated by all of the violence, she wrote a poem to her unborn son, “My Sweetest Distraction.” The poem was so well received; she realized that she could use her poetic voice to bring about solutions for peace.
Hookers in the Playground consist of an Anthology of original poems dealing with issues that concern mothers, and families everywhere.
Other writings include the novel: The Color of My Skin, and a Gang Prevention Musical titled, The Message. She has written several plays and skits for Community Groups around
She is currently writing a semi-autobiographical book: Rhythm, as well as TV Pilots and several screenplays for feature film.
She and her husband Tim have three children: Latoya Wilson, Giavonni Darlena Davis, and Timothy Wilson Jr.