by inannaadmin | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The world was a very different place in 1931 – a time of high ceilings and lace curtains, a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husbands. It was also the year the Empire State Building would be completed, making it the tallest building in the...
by Renée Knapp | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
When the late, great writer and poet, David W. McFadden, won the 2014 Giller Prize for Excellence in Poetry for What’s the Score? (Mansfield, 2013), my first poetry manuscript was still out in left field without a literary home. “David,” I asked, “what advice can you...
by inannaadmin | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Hoda Ghods Prologue After I saw an article, Seven Hours in Tehran, published in American Libraries in early April each re-reading of it saddened me more than before. The author, Leonard Kniffel, reports how his invitation to the...
by inannaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Are we devoted to voting because we think it is our responsibility? Or with our hard-won democracy do we feel obligated to sustain it? Yet how is that helping our unstable economies, or addressing the ever-increasing natural disasters? Our daily lives are in one way...
by inannaadmin | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sally Rooney, Ireland’s newest literary sensation, is widely regarded as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love in the era of late capitalism. Born in 1991, Rooney is often called the voice of her generation, the J.D. Salinger of the Snapchat...
by inannaadmin | Jun 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
If we care enough to know what is happening in our world by following our daily news and examining different sources, we witness, and we learn: Africa is burning; Iraq is shattered; Syria is bleeding; uprisings and oppressions here and there in different parts of our...
by inannaadmin | May 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
One of my favourite poets, John Keats, wrote in his letters about what he called “Negative Capability,” a state where humans are “capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” (letter to his brothers, Dec....
by inannaadmin | Mar 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Gail Benick, author of The Girl Who Was Born That Way, writes about British writer Rose Tremain: her works, her insights, and her struggles. Highly regarded in Great Britain, the writer Rose Tremain has yet to achieve literary stardom in North America. How odd!...
by inannaadmin | Nov 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin, author of “Into the Open: New and Selected”, collaborates with a fellow poet from London, Ontario, Penn Kemp on the subject of art and activism, and how art has united with activism in their lives. The blog entry has a tripartite structure:...
by inannaadmin | Oct 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Heidi Greco, author of “Practical Anxiety” writes about the artwork for her new book cover, and the image that served as a touchstone for the poems that would eventually fill the pages of the then-manuscript One of the meanings of the term ‘cover story’...
