Femmes Fatales and the Female Muse: John Keats and the Feminine

Susan McCaslin, author of “Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga”, writes about poet John Keats and his shift from explorations of the “femme fatale” portrayal of women, to a deep identification with female wisdom figures.  I first discovered the poetry of...

Ms. and Mr. (file this under ‘Words Matter’)

Peg Tittle, author of “What Happened to Tom”, writes about words, identifiers, naming, and the limitations of polite society.I’m in this world, okay, and the people identify each other by sex.  All the time.  It’s like ‘Female Person...

Are We There Yet?

Nasreen Pejvack, author of “Amity”, writes about women’s rights, the toils of scientist Vera Rubin, and the question of who is worthy of a Nobel Prize.Women have always been the essential foundation of every aspect of our lives, but they have...

A Man Shaken by a Bomb

Peg Tittle, author of “What Happened to Tom”, writes about male authors and the question of women in literature.        I picked up a sci-fi novel the other day at a used bookstore.  The jacket said it was set after...

Editing My Own Poetry

Joanna M. Weston, author of “A Bedroom of Searchlights”, blogs about her writing process and editing her poetry.The last word may be the editor’s but the first editing belongs to the poet. From the moment of inspiration, through the act of writing...
On Writing: Q & A

On Writing: Q & A

Inanna author Rhoda Rabinowitz Green’s Q & A on being a writer and her writing process. What’s the best thing about being a writer? I don’t know that there is only one best thing. For me, there are many best things. Writing is both intellectually and...

Boy Books

Peg Tittle, author of What Happened to Tom, ponders boys books and the difficulty of girls seeing themselves in boys’ literary worlds.           Boy books.  You’re thinking The Boys’ Book of...

Women’s Fiction

Peg Tittle, author of What Happened to Tom?, ponders the definition of “women’s fiction”, women writers, conflicting definitions of fiction, and under-representation / misrepresentation of writers in the publishing world. ...
Helen Weinzweig and Magic Realism

Helen Weinzweig and Magic Realism

Rhoda Rabinowitz Green, author of “Aspects of Nature”, writes about how Helen Weinzweig used magic realism to transport her feelings of trauma and pain into language the reader could emotionally grasp.My most important problem was destroyingthe lines of...