If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
― Virginia Woolf
What She Said, July 11: Virginia Woolf
What She Said, July 10: Flannery O’Connor
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
― Flannery O’Connor
4th of July 2020: Interdependence Day
July 4th was a big deal in the provincial little New York town my husband Rick and I affectionately called Cornball. Cornwall is a hotbed of Revolutionary War history. The Continental […]
What She Said, June 28: Elizabeth Alexander
Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
and are we not of interest to each other?
Elizabeth Alexander
What She Said, June 27: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest…It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What She Said, June 26: Patricia Smith
I suggest that the poets don’t hide. That they scream. That they confront. That they bellow and resist.
–Patricia Smith
What She Said, June 25: Ntozake Shange
Where there is a woman there is magic.
–Ntozake Shange
What She Said, June 24: June Jordan
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
–June Jordan
Desperately Seeking Advice
I have always been a sucker for advice columns. I began reading “Dear Abby” as a child. The column could be found on the same page as the comics, crossword puzzle, and […]
What She Said, June 23: Camille Dungy
A person who isn’t reminded several times a day about the implications of the color of her skin has time to consider the implications of other things.
–Camille Dungy
The Gloria Sirens 