Sea Dance (diptych) 48″ x 108″ Marjorie Price’s exhibition of new paintings from The Bathers Series opens April 3 at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center in Frederick, Maryland, a lovely, historical town outside of Washington D. C.. Having been an avid swimmer and competitive synchronized swimmer — as well as a painter — all [...]
University of New Mexico Press, 2007 I’ve always enjoyed a book of poems that takes me on a journey: be it a full narrative, a lyrical fragmentation, a jaunt into surrealism, or, say, a basic concept: here is a soundscape beginning with A. I’ve mostly enjoyed how these books transgress their own rules, how they [...]
Clifford Henderson, author of The Middle of Somewhere and Spanking New
Women’s Press, January 2010 Review by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin A Different type of Woman Before immigrating from Beijing to Canada, Yan Li worked as an instructor, translator and journalist. In her latest novel, ‘Lily in the Snow’, it is obvious that these early life experiences have inspired her writing. The novel focuses on the life [...]
by Shana Thornton Anne Rochon Ford discusses the collection of essays in the book The Push to Prescribe: Women & Canadian Drug Policy, which is a timely and complete look at a major North American health care crossroads. Editors Anne Rochon Ford and Diane Saibil worked with the Steering Committee of Women and Health Protection [...]
Beacon Press, January 2010 Review by Suzanne Kamata It takes a certain kind of woman to up and move from Arizona to a war-torn, wet country on the other side of the world. Such a woman is Adele Barker, who, in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, brings – drags? [...]
Women’s Press, October 2009 Review by Mary Senior Harwood Many books have been written about the Holocaust, but few, if any provide the added perspective of the extreme racial predjudice of South Africa in the same era. Miller’s book reads much like memoir, with the slow pace that often accompanies that genre. We are pulled [...]
“Dwarves without Giants” is based on the life of circus performer, Anna Swan.
About the Author Lily Poritz Miller was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and came to the United States with her family when she was fifteen. She began her editorial career in book publishing in New York at The Macmillan Company and later McGraw-Hill, then moved to Toronto, where she was senior editor and McClelland [...]
Intro More Than Fifty Women’s Migration & Labor in the 21st Century Curated by Misty K. Ericson For the first time in history, the rate of women’s international migration has exceeded that of men, with more than 50% of all migrants worldwide now being women. In this special exhibition artists Myrna Balk, Lizza May David, [...]
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.
Heidi W. Durrow discusses her novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky—winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for Fiction.
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 [...]
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).
Natsuo Kirino’s novels are not for the faint-hearted, nor are they for westerners loath to abandon the cultural stereotype of the Japanese woman as a delicate and beautiful “oriental flower”. Wendy Nakanishi explores the role of women in Japanese culture and society through Kirino’s popular works of crime and suspense.
