WOW2 - April 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 4-1 thru 4-8
April is Black Women’s History Month“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.”–Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Icon_________________.WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Postcards from the Place Where Dreams Are
“poems fall …from the richly pollinated boughs of an ordinary life, buzzing, as lives do, with clamor and glory. They are easy to miss but everywhere: poetry just is, whether we revere it or try to put...
View ArticleWOW2 - April 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 4-9 thru 4-16
April is Black Women’s History Month“To begin with I have two handicaps, that of sex and race. I am a woman and I have negro blood in my veins. Knowing the worst, would you be good enough to hold in...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Time to Be Dazzled
I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first.”―Rae Armantrout, from Next Life.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of...
View ArticleWOW2 - April 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists, 4-17 thru 4-23
April is Black Women’s History Month“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: To Live the Ways We Want to Live
“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.”―Louise...
View ArticleWOW2 April 2023: Women Trailblazers and Activists
April is Black Women’s History Month__________________Greetings!The final installment of WOW2 for April 2023 will post next Saturday, April 29, as I am celebrating our 40th anniversary with my husband...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Red Silk and the Never-Ending Honeymoon
“So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.”–William Shakespeare, Sonnet 75.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who...
View ArticleWOW2: April 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists, 4-24 through 4-30
April is Black Women’s History Month“I was conscious of my Blackness. Every young Negro growing up in the South has thoughts about racial segregation … I know what my life and mission is … It’s to set...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Ada Limón’s Instructions on Not Giving Up
‘I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm hand on the shoulder, the song coming out and the ear holding onto it.’―Ada Limon, U.S....
View ArticleWOW2: May 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists, 5-1 through 5-8
May is Women’s Health Care Month"Being able to pay for an abortion is a key part of being able to access an abortion ... The reason why abortion funds exist is because abortion is out of reach for so...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Spring's Perfect Imminent Hour
“… honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents …”–Samuel Scoville Jr., American writer and naturalist...
View ArticleWOW2: May 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists, 5-9 through 5-16
May is Women’s Health Care Month“A woman’s health is her capital.”–Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist, and advocate for better ventilation in homes and schools __________________WOW2 is a...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone”
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.–Aristotle__________________..Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with...
View ArticleWOW2: May 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists, 5-17 through 5-24
May is Women’s Health Care Month“The problem that has no name—which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities—is taking a far greater toll on the...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: A Garden of Inexhaustible Language
“… for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are — until the poem— nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.”─Audre Lorde,Poetry Is Not a...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Anything Can Happen – Poems by Linda Pastan on Her Birthday
Linda Pastan was born May 27, 1932, in New York City; American poet who lives in Maryland; former Poet Laureate of Maryland (1991-1995). Among her many poetry collections are: Carnival Evening: New and...
View ArticleWOW2: May 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists, 5-25 through 5-31
May is Women’s Health Care Month“Women generally live longer than men, but their lives are not necessarily healthy or happy ... The obstacles that stand in the way of better health for women are not...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: I Have Seen Flowers Come in Stony Places
The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.– Thucydides_______________________.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose the topic...
View ArticleWOW2: June 2023 – Women Trailblazers and Activists, 6-1 thru 6-8
June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Monthaka LGBTQ+ Pride Month“Equality means more than passing laws … I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off...
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