Meridel Le Sueur: An Unrelenting Voice of the People
In Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo names several women who have mentored and supported her throughout her...
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Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo: Healing Hearts and Nations
“My innate impulse is healing, which is also standing up for justice, which can heal hearts and...
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Morgan Jerkins: This woman writer is on fire! And we all get to benefit.
Morgan Jerkins is a woman writer on fire who we are all benefitting from. At 29 she has written...
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: In Her Name, American Woman Writer and Activist (1826-1898)
A few weeks back, I came upon a term I had not heard before, the ‘Matilda Effect’. It’s defined...
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The Book of Longings (2020) by Woman Writer Sue Monk Kidd: The Spirit in You that Rebels and Persists
When my sister Theresa and I began the Nasty Women Writers project three years ago, we set out to...
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Woman Writer on Slavery and the Haunting that Persists.
Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a novel about the enslavement of Black Americans and its lasting...
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A Long Petal of the Sea by Woman Writer Isabel Allende (2020)
The exposed beating of a heart, a miraculous extension of a life almost extinguished by the...
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Joy Harjo: “The Knowing” (Muscogee (Creek)-American Woman Writer, b. 1951)
I was elated to discover that the Library of Congress has appointed Joy Harjo to a second term as...
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (2019)
This is remarkable: the stories of over 130 courageous women and their contributions in one book!...
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