by inannaadmin | Apr 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
A poem by Nasreen PejvackI am the daughter of mother earth I am the tears of the mountains, joining the rivers; together we join the oceans I am the lover of earth’s forests, oceans and mountains I have climbed the hard mountains, seeking freedom, hearing of...
by inannaadmin | Apr 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
I embarked on my first book tour in March. To sound glamorous, I liked to refer to it as the “western leg”. There hasn’t been an eastern leg planned or even a middle leg, but regardless, it made me feel a little bit like a rock star. My superlative editor, Luciana...
by inannaadmin | Jan 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by inannaadmin | Jan 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by inannaadmin | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
