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My Singing Valentines
By Carol Muske-Dukes I remember standing up by my desk and laughing. It was Valentine's Day and someone had sent me a singing message, which I would return, again and again and again.
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Poetry Sunday: Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012 (VIDEO)
She was never caged inside the definitions society pins on the famous, but, ironically, Adrienne Rich was the canary in the coal mine of her times.
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Poetry Sunday: From Carol Muske-Dukes, An Appreciation of Adrienne Rich
We'd like to share with you this loving tribute to the late Adrienne Rich by WVFC's own Carol Muske-Dukes, Rich's friend and former Poet Laureate of California. It appears in today's Los Angeles Times.
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Poetry Sunday: In Praise of an Older Woman
Given our mission, we at Women’s Voices for Change feel little need to offer equal time to male poets, but every once in a while a deeper voice reminds us—as it does now—fhat change is indeed a shared...
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Poetry Sunday: Meredith Davies Hadaway Sets the Sails of Memory
Meredith Davies Hadaway is a woman with a profession and a poet with permission. Her self-granted authorization is to simply sit and think. She has been quoted as saying, “We can’t remember things...
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Poetry Sunday: ‘A Bell Buried Deep,’ by Veronica Golos
By Rebecca Foust What makes this poem so memorable? Maybe it’s the subject I impute to it—loss of a child—and the remarkable way the poem transmutes the speaker’s grief into a life-force of desire for...
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Cuba: A Poet’s Perspective
By Alice Pettway Despite my best efforts, my objectivity slowly melted over the course of two weeks of travel. I found myself deeply inspired by not just the physical Cuba, but by Cubans and their...
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A Photo Journey Through Cuba
By Alice Pettway Cuba is a riot of silhouette and tone. From the tobacco-filled valleys of Viñales to the colonial buildings of Trinidad, Cuba and its people demand attention and welcome you into a...
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U.S.-Cuba Relations: Bridging the Gap
By Alice Pettway The Cuban immigration officer looked at me askance when I told him I’d like my U.S. passport stamped. My accent stood out in a whirlwind of European and South American voices. My...
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Molly Fisk: Poetry Is All Yours
Poetry gives us permission. It reminds us that we are loved and we are human.
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