How Memoir-Sistas Saved My Life

A post about Inanna author, Susan McCaslin’s, women’s memoir groupAbout four and a half years ago, when a friend suggested I consider starting a memoir-writing group with her and a few other women, I smiled but politely demurred.  “Sounds like a great...

Hortense

This recent poem “Hortense” is from a sequence Susan McCaslin started on Paul Cézanne when she was in France. This poem is about his wife.“Every Hortense is startling, or disquieting, in her way.”         Alex Danchev, from Cézanne: A LifeThe...
Thinking about Feminism

Thinking about Feminism

I’ve been thinking a lot about feminism these days. I’m not a women’s studies specialist: I’m a fifty-year old woman, married, with a seven-year-old son, a graduate student in English of unfortunately long standing (must… finish… dissertation…), newly menopausal, and...