February 4, 2012

Marjorie Price exhibition at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, April 3rd – 25th

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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 [...]

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Derivative of the Moving Image by Jennifer Bartlett

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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 [...]

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One World Café presents Clifford Henderson

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Clifford Henderson, author of The Middle of Somewhere and Spanking New

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Lily in the Snow by Yan-Li

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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 [...]

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Ann Rochon Ford talks with HCE about “The Push to Prescribe: Women and Canadian Drug Policy”

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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 [...]

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Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka by Adele Barker

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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? [...]

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In a Pale Blue Light by Lily Poritz Miller

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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 [...]

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One World Café presents Leslie McMurtry

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“Dwarves without Giants” is based on the life of circus performer, Anna Swan.

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Lily Poritz Miller

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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 [...]

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More Than Fifty: Women’s Labor & Migration in the 21st Century

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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, [...]

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