Her Circle Ezine is proud to announce its first ever nominations to the Pushcart Prize. Please join us in congratulating our authors on thier achievement.
Bird Women, a short story by Patty Somlo
Deliverance, poetry by Barbara Reese
Eucalyptus Moonlight, poetry by Julie Ann Shapiro
The Stain, a short story by Beate Sigriddaughter
Lauren Sardi interviews Patricia Leavy, feminist sociology professor and author. Leavy has become known for advocating innovative and artful approaches to conducting social research as a means of getting at the complexity of lived experience and linking the “inner worlds” of women to the social contexts in which they live.
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).
In this podcast, Thaisa Frank reads from her novel Heidegger’s Glasses and discusses how “her intuition led her to write about circumstances that were grounded in factual events, but of which she had no knowledge at the time.”
“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out.”–Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?, 1898. In the mid-20th century, art was dominated by a rather formal language of abstraction. Minimalism, Formalism & Conceptualism made up the artistic mainstream. To call an art work decorative was to deride it.
Patricia Leavy: Feminist …: Lauren Sardi interviews Patricia Leavy, feminist sociology professor and au... 
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Young Jean Lee: Untit…: Lauren experiences nudist performance for the first time and discusses what... 
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