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’...
by inannaadmin | Aug 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin,author of “Into the Open: New and Selected” and “Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga”, writes on the subject of spiritual guidance. “I’m guided by a signal in the heavens.” (from Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take...
by inannaadmin | Aug 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ursula Pflug, author of “Mountain” and “Motion Sickness” writes about Weimar and pre-Wende Berlin, activism, her writing, and the rise of white supremacy. “Fires Halfway,” my short story in the 2018 Snuggly Books anthology...
by inannaadmin | Aug 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Nasreen Pejvack, author of “Amity” writes about world politics, war, media, debunking the idealized myth of the West, and the urgent need to work together to find a a way to combat chaos and bring peace to the earth. Many people from Latin American...
by inannaadmin | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Huey Helene Alcaro, author of dystopian novel, “In the Land of Two Legged Women”, writes about The Myth of Sisyphus, the search for a publisher, and the journey of a writer finding her voice, and a home for her book. Sisyphus and Me One day I was...
