William Morrow Press, 2006 Review by Cheryl A Townsend When an elementary boy tries to kill himself, people tend to look for reasons. What they find is horrendous. Katrina Kittle writes a deeply emotional, albeit fictional lament of little Jordan Kendrick’s childhood. A quiet, skinny, pale boy, he tries to kill himself to escape the [...]
Riverhead Books, 2006 Review by GA. A. Banks-Martin Tea and Self- Reliance Until the Victorian Age lessons in the art of Japanese tea ceremony, were afforded only men. That changed when Yukako Yen, took advantage of social change to amend the course of study for girls enrolled in Kyoto’s schools, to include training in the [...]
FootHills Publishing, 2007 Review by Kimberly L. Becker Native Daughter A writer of Blackfoot, Mohawk, Seneca heritage (Métis), Susan Deer Cloud grew up in the Catskill Mountains, but, as indicated on the Winning Writers web site, “has sojourned in many places.” Along the way, Deer Cloud has accumulated many awards, including a National Endowment for the [...]
Mayapple Press, 2008 Review by LouAnn Shepard Muhm Paper Chariots of the Profane In Jayne Pupek’s 2008 collection of poems, Forms of Intercession (Mayapple Press), “the eternal optimist must be on strike.” These poems go to dark places, where all the fruit is rotting, all the children dead or abused, and all the lovers unfaithful. [...]
The Word Works, 2007 Review by Julie R. Enszer Truth-telling is integral to poetry. Putting the truth into language is both a calling and a struggle for poets. In the forty-five poems of Rosemary Winslow’s first collection, Green Bodies, the struggle of language is evident in both form and content. Green Bodies is divided into [...]
The Backwaters Press, 2006 “a star/which grows slowly/more luminous”: Reading Celia Homesley’s Body of Crimson Leaves To look at the cover of Celia Homesley’s debut poetry collection, Body of Crimson Leaves, one can easily imagine a Gretel or Red Riding or Snow White, some innocent and utterly curious girl, unafraid of the unknown, adventurous, and [...]
Finishing Line Press, 2007 Review by GA. A. Banks-Martin The True Portrait of AIDS Julene Tripp Weaver first studied Creative writing at City University of New York before moving to Seattle where she received her Masters in Applied Behavioral Science from The Leadership Institute of Settle. Since that time she has become a passionate practitioner [...]
Vintage Books, 2006 Review by Mary Senior Harwood The Beauty of Love
Single parenting, with or without non-custodial parent/grandparent support and cooperation, is difficult in itself, never mind when the pressures of war are thrown into the mix. Similarly, war on its own, without the responsibility of taking care of a child or children, is also difficult to handle. Combine the two and one can but imagine [...]
Erica Jong, author “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” Anne Frank, writer Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl “Parents can only give good advice or put them[children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character [...]
In her book Exhibiting Blackness, Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, analyzes the curatorial strategies, challenges, and public and critical receptions of the most significant exhibitions of African American art and culture in American art museums.
It is hard not to believe we’re in a time of empowerment of those less powerful, and to be swept up in the fervor escalating the world over. In 2011, we witnessed the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests and most recently, one of the largest protests of women in Egypt’s long history against the [...]
Her Circle takes a close look at the International Museum of Women and its efforts to promote, support and curate the art of women from around the globe: “Although women in the Western world continue to struggle for purchase in the artistic realm, in other parts of the world voices go completely unheard—are entirely silenced. There is no outlet for them. Here is where the International Museum of Women seeks to fill the gaps and build bridges….”
Heather Child looks at roles for female characters in Disney-Pixar’s latest creations and asks, “Why are films with their feet firmly in the twenty-first century still struggling with something as basic as gender representation?
In her latest novel, Carol Anshaw presents us with a sizable group of friends, and an unforgiveable accident. She ensnares us and them in a net of gut-wrenching guilt, twisted families, fierce addictions, love, lust and everyday life. Carry the One then proceeds to lure us into closely following these people for thirty years. MaryAnne Kolton speaks to the novelist in this UpClose interview.
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Dutch artist Elis Vermuelen’s Global Burrows Project is an exploration of the places we inhabit and what we leave behind. From the beaches of the Netherlands to a disused house in the American Midwest, Vermuelen’s two-year journey opens a window onto our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.
Colombian writer of creative non-fiction, Adriana Pàramo reads from her recently published book Looking for Esperanza, which won the Social Justice and Equality Award in Creative Nonfiction in 2011, and discusses the issues raised in the book with Claire Hart.
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