Sappho: A Wildly Popular Greek Lyric Poet
Sappho, the famous lesbian poet from the island of Lesbos dating to 600 BCE. Who had not heard of...
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Tag: poetry
Ada Limón: The Importance of Poetry
I live in Sonoma County, California. That means I am long overdue to get to know the work of Ada...
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Emily Brontë’s Poetry: An Overlooked Oeuvre
Somewhere in my research about Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), I read that Charlotte thought her...
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Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson: Women Writers and the Loaded Gun of Poetry
In her poetry and prose, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) writes about important, forgotten and...
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Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, Edited by Grace Bauer & Julie Kane. (Published in 2017)
While visiting my family in New Hampshire, I went to the local and still thriving bookstore in my...
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Adrienne Rich: A Woman Writer Whose Voice Echoes in My Body, American (1929-2012)
Of all the lines written in the English language, the ones that have inspired, moved and meant the...
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