Mary BowmanMary Bowman was a poet, singer, spoken word artist, and AIDS activist. She was born HIV-positive. "Dandelion," her best-known poem, is dedicated to her biological mother, who died of AIDS-related causes. LOTUS, a collection of Bowman's oetry, was honored as book of the year at the 2011 National Underground Spoken Word Poetry Awards. In 2012, she recited "And so they said," a poem written in response to her experience participating in a Through Positive Eyes workshop, at the opening plenary session of the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. Bowman died in 2019 at the age of thirty. Read More Read Less