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.
In this OWC podcast, Claire talks to Tracy Chiles McGhee, founder of Womanifesting—WOMA—who shares some inspirational insights into how to set up and successfully run a non-profit. Tracy also reads excerpts from both her poetry and her current novel-in-progress.
Carolina de Robertis is a passionate writer who shares stories from South America. These are stories that it hasn´t always been possible to tell due to the repression exerted by the dictatorial regimes under which they unfolded and the trauma experienced by those who have had to live with their repercussions. Although she is now [...]
Podcast & Book Giveaway: Rachel Richardson reads from her collection of poems Copperhead and talks with Claire Hart about nostalgia for the South and the fact that the quaint, sugar-coated version of the South we may long for is sometimes illusory. For a chance to win a copy of Copperhead, leave a comment about this podcast.
In this podcast, Cris Beam reads from her new memoir, Mother Stranger, and discusses the difficulties of mother-daughter relationships.
In this podcast, Mary B. Banks talks with Claire Hart about starting an independent publishing company, La Muse Press. Mary also reads from her short story collection Street Magic: Stories and Tales.
In this podcast, cultural anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse read from her poetry and discusses the narratives of her homeland Haiti, and how she strives to develop new stories in spoken word and performance poetry.
In this podcast, Thaisa Frank reads from her novel Heidegger’s Glasses and discusses how “her intuition led her to write about circumstances that were grounded in factual events, but of which she had no knowledge at the time.”
Khadijah Queen reads from her collection, Black Peculiar, and discusses her poetry with Claire Hart in this One World Café podcast.
Naomi Benaron, winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, discusses social justice and reads from her novel, Running the Rift.
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.
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