by Renée Knapp | Jun 24, 2026 | CWS/cf Call for Papers, Uncategorized
Palestine & Futurities SUBMISSIONS DUE: DECEMBER 15, 2026 This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Women’s Studies will explore Palestine, futurism, and how the two meet. The CJWS is a feminist journal and forum connecting scholarly theories with...
by Renée Knapp | Sep 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
I wake from a lucid dream in which I’mwatching another COVID-19 television newscast. I, a daughter of the Holocaust, shudder at the thought of mass graves on Hart Island. Or anywhere. The sound and visual images are so vivid that I wake relieved to know I’m dreaming....
by Renée Knapp | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
…If I wasn’t free I couldn’t even liveSand in the wind, you say that’s what I amSand in the wind, that’s what I might be… —Song: Homok a szélben (Korál-feldolgozás)https://lyricstranslate.com Ilona Martonfi, author of Salt Bride Inanna,...
by Renée Knapp | Jun 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the beautiful summer of 2017, doors and windows wide open to sunshine, I am ordering my fifth poetry collection, The Tempest. I can still picture that first sighting of the book cover: Paul Klee’s Hermitage, 1918, blue pencil, medium watercolour on chalk. “In...
by Renée Knapp | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Women talk! In many cultures across the world women nurture, take care of us at all stages of life and when they do, they connect with their charges or lighten their load by talking and singing. My day to day conversations these days are most often with the women who...