The Inclusive - Women and Men at the Party. Women and Men at the Party by Daniel Story Part I: The Party A few years ago, I attended my first New York City Literary Event: a launch party for a prestigious literary magazine's new season. I had not been invited. This was only my second visit to the city and, lifelong Midwesterner that I am, I felt very Country Mouse indeed. We'd arrived fairly early.
As the evening proceeded and the room filled, I began to see how many of my preconceived ideas of New York Literary Parties (based almost entirely on the films Wonder Boys and The Good Shepherd) were wrong. Where was the haughty Ivy League aristocracy? A few months later, VIDA — an organization "founded in August 2009 to address the need for female writers of literature to engage in conversations regarding the critical reception of women's creative writing" — did something that troubled many people: they counted the articles and book reviews in major publications in the previous year, tracking the sex of the writer.
It was. Vida — Women in Literary Arts. Community Poetry Club - The Tricycle Community.
Poetry of Place. Against the current tide of globalization, we posit its opposite, "localization. " As Wendell Berry points out in The Unsettling of America, our culture and our literature valorize moving on, lighting out for the territory ahead of the rest, as opposed to staying in one place and knowing it well. However, our identity is tied to place: We don't know who we are unless we know where we are.
"In this hemisphere," writes Scott Russell Sanders in Staying Put, "many of the worst abuses--of land, forests, animals, and communities--have been carried out by 'people who root themselves in ideas rather than places.'" Paul Shepard thinks that the lack or denial of our connection to the plants and animals in a given place makes us crazy. Among contemporary poets, Mary Oliver has been one of the most articulate in stressing the importance for both poets and readers of poetry to connect poetry to the natural world. The representation of nonhuman realities may be the greatest challenge of all.
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2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 10 Quick note on selecting poems for the anthology: I plan to pull poems on average 5-7 days after the prompt is first posted. 2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 9 Before we get into today’s prompt, I just want to address a few common questions I’ve been asked recently: Who can join the challenge? 2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 8 2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 7 Wow! 2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 6 2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 5. Duotrope.
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