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...
by inannaadmin | May 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
On this day, May 20, in 1932, Amelia Earhart took off on a flight that would distinguish her as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She left from the town of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, a place that still honours her with a statue beside the road as you...
