Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on...
Poetry
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Author:Cisneros, SandraSummary: - Author:Diaka, Ama AsantewaSummary:
An entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries' ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the...
- Author:Venart, S.E.Summary:
Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Whatever their subject — the unwinding of lovers, childhood as the foundation of being, the metaphorical life of everyday objects and events — S.E. Venart’s poems show us a kind of courage...
- Author:Mead, JaneSummary:
Mead's fifth collection candidly and openly explores the long process that is death. These resonant poems discover what it means to live, die, and come home again. We're drawn in by sorrow and grief, but also the joys of celebrating a...
- Author:Berry, JulieSummary:
Reading Julie Berry’s poetry means entering a new poetic space, crossing thresholds of pain and delight at once raw and refined. “like marie d’oignies who buried bloody/ mouthfuls of herself/ in the garden/ i need my poems to be like...
- Author:Conroy, PatSummary:
How should we improve the state of South Carolina? That invitingly open-ended question served as the basis for the first annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest as the call went out in fall 2013 to juniors and seniors across...
- Author:Roberts, KevinSummary:
Speaking of Kevin Roberts, the Australian writer Nigel Krauth says, “Roberts takes the common man’s point of view and proves that humanity is still connected to the great turning of the universe.” Certainly this “New and Selected”...
- Author:Henderson, BrianSummary:
Year Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along songlines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson’s poetry,...
- Author:Gillis, SusanSummary:
Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.
- Author:Hartsfield, CarlaSummary:
Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards
Carla Hartsfield sings praises to the unusual: a rose blooming in December; an angel dancing on a cardiologist’s scanner; Glenn Gould playing Brahms at Angelo’s Garage. But these are common...
- Author:Nichol, bpSummary:
Originally twelve years in the making! Featuring a cast of thousands. It still stars the letter H, and introduces Probable Systems, Negatives, and the Actual Life of Language! Your heart will pound as you see H's turn into I's before...
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