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...
by inannaadmin | Jan 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Gail Benick, author of of “The Girl Who Was Born That Way”, writes about Edna O’Brien’s work and her astounding accomplishments over more than five decades . At the heart of “The Little Red Chairs” is a resourceful and resilient...
by inannaadmin | Aug 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ann Birch, author of The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves, writes about gender inequity, the perils of women’s washrooms, and a call to organize!At the first intermission of the opera, I run, leaping down the stairs as fast as I can in my fancy shoes. There are...
by inannaadmin | Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin blogs about writing, poetry, her love of books, and a lifetime of uncovering hidden literary treasures at the library.Many writers I most love were avid readers as children or became so at some point in their lives. For me as a child, reading was my...