Shana Thornton writes about women in literary groups, finding an abundance of women participants as well as a broad spectrum of disciplines and occupations that use literary group work in their endeavors. She highlights several groups, including the Fiction Writer’s Co-op, and goes on the look at volunteerism and publishing rates.
Kylie Grant wondered where second wave feminism could be resonating within the voices of contemporary women. She searched for voices of passion and revolution. When she opened a Christmas present and uncovered a book of contemporary women’s poetry, Kylie found what she’d been searching for, and this month, she writes about the voices of several of her favorite women poets.
Her Circle Ezine was pleased with the live reading on Saturday, March 5th in Tennessee as part of our International Women’s Day Virtual Festival.
by Kylie Grant I have a dirty, shameful secret. A secret not even uttered to my closest friend, to my boyfriend in a drunken confessional or to my mother in guilt—I have read all of the Twilight novels. Yes, all of them. Because I know that anyone reading this will ask the obvious question, why [...]
ANNA FELICIA SANCHEZ ISHIKAWA or Anna Ishikawa, as she is known professionally, was born in August 1981 and graduated from St. Scholastica’s Academy High School in 1998. She gained admittance to the top University of the nation – the University of the Philippines, Diliman – where she majored in Creative Writing, eventually earning her BA [...]
Poetry capable of inspiring change not only communicates the slick and tender pulse of a surface wound, it connects to the universal nerve of tremors and feelings, connecting wires, vessels, and shifting cells. Poets are transmitters of the human condition. They initiate and inspire change to transcend their time, their poems added to anthologies and [...]
Sometimes friendships just happen when we meet someone. An instant spark ignites a lifetime of favors, compassion, words, activities, and challenges. Often circumstances make us friends. Other times, we choose and actively pursue friendships. During grad school, I heard the story of Zora Neale Hurston’s rescue by a friend she had never known in life. [...]
On Valentine’s Day, people are often wrapped up in gifts, dedications, and sentiments regarding romantic love; however, the ties of love aren’t only attached to romantic relationships. Many women now honor Valentine’s Day and Susan B. Anthony’s February 15th Birthday with a V-Day performance of the Vagina Monologues. These performances are symbolic of the current, [...]
Tori Grant-Welhouse writes about The Chalk Circle, a new anthology of intercultural prize-winning essays and finds that “our melting pot days are behind us. The impetus can no longer be homogeneity but validation of the diversity that makes us different or ‘other.’”
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BURMESE LESSONSWhen Karen Connelly first goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles about political prisoners, she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that imposes a code of censorship and terror. Carefully seeking out the regimes critics, she witnesses mass demonstrations, attends protests, interviews detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and flees from the riot police herself. When it gets too risky to stay, Connelly flies back to Thailand, but she cannot leave Burma behind. read more
