by inannaadmin | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Television news is a young person’s game. I first heard that assertion from my broadcast journalism professors and class advisors, and then later from workshop presenters at national industry conferences. The statement was an undercurrent that gradually grew into a...
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 inannaadmin | May 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
“An interview and poem, “Corona Corona” by Susan McCaslin, April 26, 2020, originally published on buddybreathing, online blog of Lesley-Anne Evans: https://buddybreathing.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/napomo-poetry-party-25/ I’m excited to introduce you to Susan McCaslin,...
by inannaadmin | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ilona Martonfi, author of The Snow Kimono and Salt Bride writes her Lockdown Diary during the quarantine of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Making Tartys in Applis in the time of the Black Death plague, remembering her mother baking the Hungarian almás rétes, the scent of...
by inannaadmin | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Thank you, City of Toronto, for banning pesticides and enabling joyful seas of yellow to dot summer lawns and fields. I love dandelions because they symbolize everything that is tough, tender, supple, resilient. And prolific. Dandelions should be Toronto mascots,...
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...
by Renée Knapp | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
From our earliest feminist sisters, such as Rosa Luxemburg, an anti-war activist, philosopher and economist, and Clara Zetkin who fought for women’s suffrage and to establish a day for us all, “International Women’s Day;” to the ones who wrestled over many decades to...
by Renée Knapp | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
photo credit: Melanie Gordon Photography In her memoir, A Good Wife. Escaping the Life I Never Chose, Samra Zafar explores the roots of her abusive arranged marriage and her courageous breakaway from the confinement imposed on her. Samra Zafar, a woman of Pakistani...
by Renée Knapp | Mar 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Mark Haddock My friend J.S. Porter and I recently published a multi-genre volume of reflections titled Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine (Wood Lake, 2018).* We feel that Thomas Merton and other contemplatives of mystical...
by Renée Knapp | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
The discipline of Psychology teaches us that Blind Obedience is a behaviour whereby people do as they are told without thinking for themselves on whether what they hear is true or whether they should obey orders. In combat, soldiers are trained to follow orders...
