Coming Of Age In Da 💚 Greens

Ghetto Heaven in Da Greens...

Ghetto Heaven in Da Greens...

DA GREENS
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Damn, Damn, Damn, Candy Man He Ain't All That I Lived Beneath The Candy Lady For Years!
Coming Of Age in Da 💚 Greens...
Are You More Ghetto Than A 5th Grader...
Ghetto Heaven
Candy Man in DA Green's
Overcoming Obstacles in our Paths: Jesse White Tumbling Team...Fly Like An Eagle
Michael Jackson In Cabrini 💚 Green
Mama
The Project(s)
Crows Only Pick At The Best 🍓 Fruit...in Da Greens & E'rywhere Else.
They Wear The Crown...For President Obama
Baby Daddy...
Feeling Ghetto & You Don't Know Where To Turn...Visit My Website!
25 Hood Blasters...
I Know Who I Am
They Said It Wouldn't Last...But Rap Music Has Had A Very Long Past..
Memory Lane...
Never Give Up In DA Greens!
When Hip Hot Meets Poetry...in Da 🍏 Greens...
Hey Black Child!
One Day You're Gonna Look Down & See My Name....
16 Shots!
Rapper With A Slower Cadence...
Top 10 Hood Movies
Me & Mrs. Jones in Cabrini 🍏 Green
- Mayor Jane Byrne In Cabrini 🍏 Green
Doreen in Da 💚 Greens...
The Village...in Da 🍏 Greens
Rubik's Game Room in Cabrini 🍏 Green
Sammy's in Cabrini 💚 Green
PJ Paparelli In Cabrini 💚 Green
Steppin' In Seward Park...
Lena Waithe in Cabrini 💚 Green...
Nick Names in Cabrini...
Talent in Cabrini 💚 Green...
Mr. Postman In Cabrini 💚 Green....
Olly Olly Oxen Free...
Red Rover, Red Rover Send Do & So Over...
Emmett Till In Cabrini Green
YouTube of Cabrini 🍏 Green
St Matthew in Cabrini 🍏 Green
Top Ten Rap Singles....
Cell Block H in Cabrini 💚 Green...
Madea in Cabrini 🍏 Green
Soul Train In Cabrini 🍏 Green
The 18th Letter...R. Kelly in Cabrini 💚 Green
18th District In Cabrini 💚 Green
Favorite Episode of Good Times
Near North Career Magnet High School
School Days in Cabrini 🍏 Green...
A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste...
Discovering Richard Pryor in Cabrini
Discovering Millie Jackson in Cabrini 💚
Discovering Benny Hill In Cabrini 🍏 Green
Discovering & Rediscovering Richard Wright & Langston Hughes in Cabrini 🍏 Green
Bruce Conn in Cabrini 💚 Green
Sam Cooke in Cabrini 🍏 Green...
Bruce Lee & Spike Lee Flicks in Da 💚 Greens
Donald Goines in Cabrini 🍏 Green
Steve & Marlene Pedigo in Cabrini 💚 Green
37 Sedgwick in Cabrini 🍏 Green
Carol Burnett in Cabrini 🍏 Green
Reagonomics
Mother's Of Cabrini 🍏 Green...With Special Dedication To Joyce Campbell & Zendia Conm
Rev. Jesse Jackson in Cabrini i Green...
The Globe Trotters in Cabrini 🍏 Green...
Byron Allen in Cabrini Green
Girl X In Cabrini 💚 Green...
Taste Of Cabrini...in River North...
Rowhouses In DA Greens...
Buckwheat Has Been Shot in Cabrini...
Marion Stamps in Cabrini 💚 Green
Lower North Center in Cabrini 💚 Green
Camp Chief Makisabee
Montgomery Ward Tutoring Program in Cabrini Green
Dantrell Davis In Cabrini 🍏 Green...
The Gold Coast wasn't too far from Cabrini Green
Motown In Cabrini 🍏 Green
The Summer of '78...
Oscar Mayer Plant Near Cabrini 💚 Green...
Moody Bible Institute Near Cabrini 💚 Green...
Hasty Tasty Near Cabrini 🍏 Green
WBMX, WJPC and V103 in Cabrini Green
Are You More Ghetto Than A 5th Grader PART 2
The Atlanta Murders...in Cabrini 💚 Green
Henrotin in Da 💚 Greens...
The 1208 in Cabrini 💚 Green
Everything But The Kitchen Sink.
Black Don't Crack...Unless It's On Crack...
The Matador in Cabrini 🍏 Green...
Frankie Beverly & Maze In Cabrini 🍏 Green...
Beautiful Women In Cabrini 🍏 Green...
Tribute To Dudley Randall...
My Favorite Poet...Dudley Randall...The Ballad of Birmingham
I Want To Be Perennially Etched In Your Mind Like An Etcha Sketch That You Just Can't Shakee...
Go Away Little Boy
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Sweep Around Your Own Front Door in Cabrini Green...
Lift Every Voice & Sing...
Rent Space...In Cabrini Green
Without A Test...There Is No Testimony in Cabrini Green..
Chicago Reporter: Letter To The Editor @Cabrini Green...
Maybe They Continue To Hang U...Cuz Well You Are So Well Hung...
World Class Runners...
16 Shots!
Is There A Section 8 Waiting List In Heaven For A G?
The Game Is To Be Sold & Not To Be Told...in DA Greens.
Surrogate Mother America
Free Money...
Short Money...in DA Greens!
Red Rover Red Rover Send Doreen right Over...
Cobb's! In DA Greens!
E'ythang But The Kitchen Sank...in Da 🍏 Greens...
Can I Write You A Love Poem...
Carol Burnett In Cabrini Green...
Modern Day Lynchings
Rent Space In Da Greens
The Game Is To Be Sold & Not To Be Told...
Romey Rome is In DA Hisouse! In Da Green's...
Singing & Swinging & Getting Merry Like Christmas In Cabrini Green
The Honey Mooners All Up & Thru Cabrini Green.
On TV & Spectrum in DA Greens...
Zoom in DA Greens....
Harold Washington in DA Greens...
Run, Nicky, Run in Cabrini Green
Coming of Age In Mississippi In DA Greens
Aretha, Chaka, Diana, The Jackson 5 & The 0'Jay's, Curtis Mayfield...in DA Greens......
Malcolm, Medgar, Martin, JFK...
Selling Wolf Tix in DA Green's...
Penitentiary In DA Greens...
Twin Oaks in DA Greens...
You Can't Have Everything When You Wake Up in DA Greens.....
First Crush in DA Greens.
God Bless The Chicago Defender, Austin Voice & Philadelphia Tribune...
Bernie Mac in DA Greens!
Langston Hughes in DA Greens...
When God Made One He Didn't Stop Making Them...
I'mma tell Y'all What God Loves...
Frankie Beverly & Maze in DA Greens...
The Isley Brothers In DA Greens
Charge It To My Head & Not My Heart in Cabrini Green
I published my new episode BGM_Girl X..., please check it out https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-w9338-19
Chicago Reporter
I Got On New News! In DA Greens...
What U Wanna Do...Box Or Boogalou?
When Aaron Hall Was Scatting Dumb Dumb Ditty Was He talkin' 'bout P. Didfy?
Dreams Are The Wings Of The Mind You Can Fly Anytime You Like....
You heard of The Exorcist I Was The 'Extra Sis' in DA Greens
Miss Mary Mack All Dressed In Black...With Silver Buttons Down Her Back...
If AM One of Y'all eat my hot nibs with hot sauce and popcorn I'm ...
Garrett's Popcorn...in DA Green's
Tonight Is DA Night in DA Greens...
Souse Meat In DA Greens....
Modern Day Lynching
When You Catch A Sucka...Bump His Head....In DA Greens
I Want To Be Perennially Etched In Yo' Mind Like An Etcha Sketch in DA Greens...
4 Little Girls in DA Greens...
Esta Suzan En Casa in DA Greens...
The Bozo Show In DA Greens...
Prince In DA Greens...
The Honey Mooners in DA Greens....
Benny Hill in DA Greens...
Tussy In DA Greens
Mary Hartman...Mary Hartman All up in thru DA Greens.
Holly Hobbie in DA Greens....
Love American Style in DA Greens...
Sara Smile In Da Greens
I published my new episode Me & Mrs. Jones In DA Greens (Part II), please check it out https://www.p
Stevie Wonder I'm DA Greens...
Yo Tittle In DA Middle In DA Greens...
Benny & The Jets in DA Greens...
Another One Bites The Dust in DA Greens!
Rest Well Rappers...A job Magnificent Done...
If it was not for An Algorithm...You Sir Wouldn't Have Any Rhythm in DA Greens....
Father
Further On Up The Road In DA Greens...
If Everything Is Going Your Way....
When Man Closes A Door God Opens Up A Window....
Smokey Robinson in DA Greens....
DA Greens will be featured in The Chicago Film Collective
For Those That Don't Like Rap Music...
The Easiest Thing In The World Is To Look Down On Someone...
Chu'ch in DA Greens...
Sumthin' In The Milk Ain't White in Da Greens...
Halloween in Da Greens
Further on up the Road in Da Greens
Some folk ain't worth the salt in spit in Da Greens...
Who is that smelling like Sheep, Shiznit in Shallow Water...in Da Greens...
Don't worry about the splinter in my eye...Worry about the branch in yours...in Da Greens...ok!
What you eat Don't Make Us ISH in DA Greens...
Troi Tyler in Da Greens....
Prince All Up In Dem Greens...
Mayor Harold Washington in Dem Greens
What they eat don'take me ISH in Dem Greens?
Selling Wolf Tix & Purchasing Wolf Tix in Da 💚 Greens
Look At CaliforNIA in Da Greens.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings in Da Greens
History Of Da Greens
Reading Is Fundamental in Da 💚 Greens
Don't Ask My Neighbor in Dem Greens...
Joe Soto...V103...Always A Jon Well Done
Lu Palmer all up in Da 💚 Greens.
Tony Sculfield...WGCI
Tom Joyner in Dem Greens
There is somethin' about Chicago Radio in Dem Greens
Lower North Center in Da 💚 Greens.
Car Wash in Da 🍏 Greens...
It's Alive In Da 🍏 Greens.
Most Harrowing & Cringeworthy Episode of Good Times in my estimation..
I Can't Call It...I Might Spoil It...In Da 🍏 Greens
Winnie Da Pooh in Da 🍏 Greens...
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A 🥪 in Da 💚 Greens...
The Fifth Floor Off on up in Dem 💚 Greens
Tears in Da 💚 Greens
Cousin Buzzy...Alvin Cowser in Da 💚 Greens aka Pimp Daddy
A Convo in Hip Hop...in Da 💚 Greens
- Hip Hop...
People Think They Diss My Person By Stating I'm Darkly Packed But I point St QTip & He States: Black
JHUD in Da 🍏 Greens
Moving Day...
No Amber Alert No Internal Geiger Counter Me Too'ed Botham Jean in his very own Living Room...
Modern Day Lynchings
Hey you! Scrolling & Looking @ my site...Like A Stalker In A Van...Tell A Friend...
Horny Unrequited Love Killer Sea Monkeys in Da Flesh...
If Rap is not Music Too U...Then How is Eminem your fav Rapper...I'll Wait....
My mother prepared to pull off in that Mustard Colored Maverick as long as Kevin Hart"s Driver Did..
Scarface all up in da Greens
Bottom Feeders
Sometimes The Trash Has A Way of Taking Itself Out..
Old Chicago in Da 🍏 Greens...
Great America in Da 💚 Greens...
Ppl think they diss my person by stating I'm darkly pack...
Let A Poem Be Your Umbrella in Da Greens
Requiem For Sonya Massey
Candy Lady For The Culture
Brad Cummings: Austin Voice

Coming Of Age in Da 💚 Greens...

The Ambrose Family...Karen, Butch, Marsay and Me...Doreen

365 W. Oak Street #410.

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Doreen Ambrose-Van Lee, a poet and former resident of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project who writes about her experiences growing up there, capturing the contrasting sides of the community in her poetry and in the title of her book Diary of a MidWestern Getto Gurl. She is a founding member of the North Austin Public Library Poetry Group and holds a degree in print journalism.

About Doreen Ambrose-Van Lee

Background:Ambrose-Van Lee grew up in Cabrini-Green during the 1970s and 80s.
Literary Works:She is the author of Diary of a MidWestern Getto Gurl and uses her poetry to process both the positive and negative aspects of her childhood in the housing project.
Education and Military Service:She earned a BA in print journalism from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and also served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Community Involvement:She is a founding member of the North Austin Public Library Poetry Group on the west side of Chicago.

Her Perspective on Cabrini-Green

A Complex Home:Ambrose-Van Lee describes Cabrini-Green as a home where a "village was raising her," but also a place of tragedy.
Processing Memories:Her work serves as a way to make sense of her memories and experiences, whether it was feeling loved and supported or witnessing violence and hardship.
Humanizing Public Housing:She emphasizes that behind the negative reputation of public housing projects, there were real lives and home

About us

Ghetto Heaven is a sanctuary for poetry enthusiasts, offering a platform to explore and celebrate the power of words. Our mission is to inspire, connect, and elevate through phenomenal poetry.

I want to be perennially etched in your mind like an Etcha Sketch that you just can't shake...

Doreen Ambrose Van Lee

Where there's a flower

There's The Sun and the rain

Oh...but it's wonderful there

Both one and the same...

Frankie Beverly....Joy & Pain

One Thing 'bout the

Ghetto You don't have

To Hurry...It'll Be There

2morrow so brother don't

You worry...

Ghetto Life...Rick James

Feeling Ghetto & You Don't Know Where 2 Turn...

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Cuz I Can't Call It I Might Spoil It.

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A boy is born in hard time Mississippi

Surrounded by 4 walls that ain't so pretty

His parents give him love and affection

To keep him strong...moving in the right

Direction...Livin' For The City...Stevie Wonder.

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Up At The Top There's Room For All It's Just The Bottom That's Crowded Y'all...Wee Gee

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