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Poetry

Our Poet Laureate/Ourselves

By Women's Voices For Change
Kay Ryan has written of Hope that it is “the almost-twin/of making-do,/the isotope/ of going on.” Here at Women’s Voices for Change we celebrate that capability within women—that capacity to make do and go on—with hope.  No wonder we are spotlighting the poems of Ryan, our nation’s Poet Laureate, during April, National Poetry Month.  She is the perfect poet to…
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Music · Poetry

Melodia Combines Poet Laureate’s Words, Women’s Vocal Power

By Chris Lombardi
Thirty years ago, as the 1970s were coming to a close, a young pianist named Cynthia Powell had an impulse not so common among accompanists. “I started to look into women composers, women’s music — I wasn’t yet sure why,” Powell told WFC last week. That impulse, then sort of perpendicular to most of Powell’s gigs accompanying church choirs and…
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Poetry

Poetry Friday: A reflection and a celebration.

By Women's Voices For Change
When “Twin Cities” by our own Carol Muske-Dukes appeared in the July 6 issue of The New Yorker, no one was surprised.  Carol’s stature as a poet has long been established and her appointment last December as poet laureate of California only served to make concrete what she has always demonstrated:  her leadership, her activism as a poet-citizen (at the…
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Money & Careers

Daily Newsmix:As Newspapers Struggle, Women in Forefront; New Boomer Poet Laureate Sneaks Up On You

By Womens Voices for Change
Trying to create the next generation of news: This week was a hard one for the newspaper business, with layoffs from L.A. to Boston. In the eye of the storm, from opposite sides of the revolving door, were  newly-departed Chicago Tribune editor Anne-Marie Lipinski and Katherine Weymouth, who last month succeeded her grandmother Katherine Graham as publisher of the Washington…
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