Women, anger and poetry
Dennis Johnson
In a brilliantly provocative essay for the New Republic, Ruth Franklin describes a poetry reading she went to recently where poet Amelia Gray “took the stage and announced with a… Read more »
In a brilliantly provocative essay for the New Republic, Ruth Franklin describes a poetry reading she went to recently where poet Amelia Gray “took the stage and announced with a… Read more »
Why “are there so few adventure heroines? And even fewer female adventure authors?” In a commentary for The New Statesman, Kate Mosse, author of a female adventure novel herself, Labyrinth,… Read more »
“Over the past decade, Iran’s best-selling fiction lists have become dominated by women, an unprecedented development abetted by recent upheavals in Iranian society,” observes Nazila Fathi in a New York… Read more »
Another angle on the attack by Ed Klein against Hillary Clinton that got little attention amongst all the right wing commentators knocking Klein last week comes from Tina Brown, who,… Read more »
“Today, across the West, women are well represented in art, architecture, music and film schools and account for a majority of students attending college literature and creative writing courses,” observes… Read more »
“The truth is that men will not, on the whole, read books written by women,” according to a new report by British academics Lisa Jardine and Anne Watkins. As Sinclair… Read more »
“Harper Lee, who has been dodging publicity for decades since she published her only book, To Kill a Mockingbird, made a rare step into the limelight to be honored by… Read more »
Elizabeth McFarland Hoffman, “who as poetry editor of Ladies’ Home Journal sandwiched the work of W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath in between ‘Is Your Marriage a Masquerade?’… Read more »
“The Mayan women of the Ciapas” in Mexico are extremely poor, and many are illiterate. Still, they’re rich in one thing: poetry, according to a New York Times story by… Read more »
It started in 1969 as a booklet called Women and Their Bodies—a “radical primer on women’s health” that grew so popular so quickly that the group of women who’d written… Read more »