Name: Music In My Heart By T. L. Cooper by TLCooper 1
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Description: T. L. Cooper reading her poem, Music in My Heart, during Poets at the Playhouse Hosted by Ariel at Brush Creek Playhouse on April 20, 2013.

T. L. Cooper reading her poem, Music in My Heart, during Poets at the Playhouse Hosted by Ariel at Brush Creek Playhouse on April 20, 2013.

Music In My Heart By T. L. Cooper

Zoonotic viruses are those that pass from animals to humans. They've plagued us for as long as we've existed and they cross over with more regularity than we may realize. Most zoonotic diseases stop in a relatively short amount of time, because humans aren't an ideal host. SARS, West Nile, avian and swine flus are all familiar zoonotic diseases. But none of them have been as difficult for our medicine to manage as HIV. Most people think of the virus that causes AIDS as a relatively recent affliction, but, as David Quammen explains in his new book The Chimp and the River, HIV made the leap from chimps to humans in the southeastern corner of Cameroon over a century ago. Quammen's book explains how the virus likely spilled-over and turned into the global scourge that it is today.

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T. L. Cooper grew up on a farm in Tollesboro, Kentucky. She earned a Bachelor of Science from Eastern Kentucky University.  Her poems, short stories, articles, and essays have appeared online, in books, and in magazines. She published a novel, All She Ever Wanted. Her latest works are three books of poetry, Love in Silhouette: Poems, Reflections in Silhouette: Poems, and Memory in Silhouette: Poems. When not writing, she enjoys yoga, golf, and traveling.


Music In My Heart By T. L. Cooper

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