Poetry Friday, Equality Edition: Emily Dickinson Was ‘Straightaway Dangerous’
August 27, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

As we close our celebration of Women’s Equality Day, a salute to the ‘Belle of Amherst’ — the poet who once cried to a friend, “Why can’t I be a delegate to the Convention? Don’t I know all about the Law?”
Read More »Poetry Friday: Patricia Spears Jones
August 13, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

Jones, a star of the New York scene for decades, offers up two poems of pain and desire, perfect for a steamy August Friday.
Read More »Poetry Friday: The Crows Start Demanding Royalties
August 6, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

You’ll never think of them in quite the same way again. Our second week of poetry by Lucia Perillo.
Read More »Poetry Friday: Lucia Perillo
July 30, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

MacArthur winner Perillo’s poems hint what life is like in what Zorba called “the full catastrophe” — life without the frills of hiding places.
Read More »Poetry Friday: Remembering
July 23, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

Award-winning poet and teacher J.C. Todd on how memories of caring for one loved one blend into the ritual with another.
Read More »Poetry Friday: Julianna Baggott (VIDEO)
July 16, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

Julianna Baggott has the resume and energy of a village of writers. In this week’s poem, she reflects on some of her book-cover blurbs; in the video, she reads from one of her best-selling children’s books, The Prince of Fenway Park.
Read More »Mary Karr, Fearless Web Warrior
July 9, 2010 by Laura Baudo Sillerman
Poetry Friday: “Butterflies”
July 2, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

Our Poetry Friday introduces Linda Benninghoff, and a poem whose quiet reaches season to season.
Read More »Poetry Friday: A Full Moon Raga from Millicent Borges Accardi
June 25, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

Our visiting poet Millicent Borges Accardi leaves us with a raga for a fast-approaching, evanescent phase of the moon. Enjoy.
Read More »Entering the World: On Women, Social Change, and the Poetics of Edouard Glissant
June 18, 2010 by Betsy Wing

By Betsy Wing
For Poetry Friday, translator Betsy Wing examines, and shares verses from, the work of Caribbean poet, philosopher, and novelist Edouard Glissant.
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