by Carolyn Boyd This International Women’s Day, I plan to celebrate with one of my favorite activities: shopping. I don’t mean at the mall; I mean on the internet, buying magnificent works of art created by women all over the world as a means to their economic, social, and political independence. By doing so, I [...]
Writing on the Line: The Poetry and Life of Alda Merini
by Shannon K. Winston Alda Merini, born in Milan in 1931, published her first poetry collection, La presenza di Orfeo, when she was only twenty-two. By and large, her poetry is characterized by a deep ambiguity. While her early poems are filled with hope and love, her later collections, especially Tu sei Pietro (1962), exhibit [...]
Ilene Sova
A Talk with the Artist The gaze from a painting often captivates people. Books have been devoted to the Mona Lisa’s playful and observant eyes. We often want to avoid the eyes from a portrait that seem to follow us around the room. Some faces stare or smile at us so that we wish to [...]
Antonella Anedda: Encounters with Silence, the Page, and the World
by Shannon K. Winston Antonella Anedda, one of today’s most prominent and promising Italian women poets, once called poetry her “reality.” In that same interview with Niederngasse in 2006, she explains that poetry is “the way [she has of] opening [herself] to the world, with verses, with rhythms that [she has] in [her] head and [...]
Full Circle Exhibition
Posted Under: Announcements1875 – 2008 Salon Show
Posted Under: AnnouncementsFull Circle: A Tribute to the Cultural Diversity of Women’s Art, Pen and Brush, New York
About Pen and Brush “I think we have one of the best of the women’s arts organizations that I know of,” says Janice Sands, Executive Director of Pen and Brush. I’ll go out on a limb and say we have the most diverse exhibitor base of any of them. And from other art organizations that [...]
Fifth Annual Women’s Show at VARGA
by Lynn Alexander The VARGA Gallery of Woodstock, New York, recently concluded the annual Women’s Show–an event showcasing more than thirty artists of diverse styles and themes. The show featured a solo exhibition by surrealist visionary Cristine Cambrea and Corinne Dolle, (a.k.a. Coco), whose pin-ups have appeared in The Village Voice and The New York [...]
Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveler in Southeast Asia by Tamara Sheward
Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005 Review by Cheryl A Townsend A travelogue of hilarious and sometimes perilous escapades for the adventurous woman Tamara Sheward is an Aussie-born adventurer with a penchant for taking the road less traveled when vacationing. When she overhears a fellow Aussieman talk of his travels in remote areas of Asia, she immediately [...]
Defying the Eye Chart by Marilyn Jurich
Mayapple Press, 2008 Reviewed by Rachel Dacus Opening this book at random, I was struck by the prevalent combination of frankness and expressiveness in these poems. The first poem I read, “25 Lines for Ascending and Descending Keys,” compelled because of its overarching music metaphor of piano keys and also because of its jazzy language [...]
