Women We Read This Week
Pauline Campos’s “A Mexican-American in Maine Responds to Governor LePage” in The Fix Earlier this year, Maine’s governor Paul LePage made multiple racist remarks…
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Melanie Bishop’s Nine Writers on Loss & Grief
One of the most painful parts of loss and grief is the way it alienates us at the time we most need human understanding….
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Women We Read This Week
Palmer’s piece begins with a family on the run. It’s her family, but they have new names and are not sure where they’re headed.
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Chloe Honum’s Seven Poets on Grief
Grief was what first drove me to poetry. As a teenager, in the throes of loss, I felt language slipping away from me—or me…
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Tough Odds, Lady Bird
I first noticed the robin one day in early June, as she swiped dead stalks from one of the two potted lavender plants on our deck.
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Women We Read This Week
Jill Talbot’s “A Brief History” on The Nervous Breakdown I first became aware of Jill Talbot through her fascinating essay in DIAGRAM called “The…
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Women We Read This Week
Elizabeth Alexander’s “Lottery Tickets” in The New Yorker This is a love story. A tale of loss, but a love story before that, and…
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Crafting Memoir and “Doing Grief”: An Interview with Melanie Bishop
This week’s guest writer, Melanie Bishop, was one of my first writing teachers at Prescott College, a small liberal arts and environmental school in…
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In the Form of Birds
The summer my father died I bought a book on Southwestern birds. It was he who had given me my first feeder on my 8th birthday…
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Women We Read This Year: 2013
It’s that time of year, the time of Bests and Mosts and pretty much any superlative you can think of that will fit in…
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The Grief Book Club
My aunt died recently. Although she was sick and we all knew about it, it was somehow still sudden and shocking. She was diagnosed with HIV…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Rebecca Solnit’s “The Faraway Nearby” on Guernica I love Rebecca Solnit‘s writing…
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