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Harjo, Joy: Mainstreaming Native American Idioms

As US Poet Laureate, Harjo has highlighted a Native American idiom in her poetry. She’s also authored a poetic memoir. Here are a couple of poems of hers that I liked. Granddaughters I was...

Sleepytime Tales with Coco Comma: Book Review

This book has four stories by Sonia Mehta, about a girl called Coco Comma, who is a grammar Nazi. The recommended age for readers is above five years. I have twins who are 4.7...

Gopal, Revathy: Voicing Mrs. Buddha

I like writing persona poems, and fellow Indian woman poet Revathy Gopal’s two Yashodhara poems resonated with me. She has depicted the anguish of the wife Buddha left behind, beautifully. Everyone knows of Buddha,...

Forche, Carolyn: Poet of Witness

I first came across Carolyn Forche in her illuminating craft talk at the Dodge Poetry Festival online during the pandemic. She had some great tips. Here’s a poem by her. The Testimony Of Light by...

Estep, Maggie: Funny and Raw Contemporary Women Poetry

Juxtapositions are the heart of poetry, and also human beings. Here’s a poem by Maggie Estep on that. Liner Notes – (From Love Is A Dog From Hell) Emotional Idiocy is obviouslya theme close...

Duffy, Carol Ann: Mistress of the Monologue

Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife sparked off many ideas in me. I wrote ‘Mrs. Pandava,’ which won me the Orange Flower Award for Poetry in 2020. Duffy was the first woman Poet Laureate,...

Carson, Anne and Cope, Wendy: Genre Bending Contemporary Women Poets

First up, Anne Carson. “The bare blue trees and bleached wooden sky of April carve into me with knives of light.” From ‘The Glass Essay’ Such a fabulous line. More excerpts from it –...

Penelope: NaPoWriMo Day 3

It’s of great profit that a busy queen Match’d with a young husband, I mete and spread Lenient laws unto a civilized race, that Spend, and awake, and starve, and know not me. I’m...

Self Portrait as a Painting: NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 2

Broad blue brushstrokes on a canvas Sometimes loud and red Sometimes bottled green Circling back to my purple dreams Sweeter after the parting Yolk drips down Upside downing everything. I mix it with my...

Belieu, Erin: The Contemporary Woman Poet Who Calls It Like She Sees It

I first thought I’d put Elizabeth Barrett Browning or Elizabeth Bishop for the letter B in this A2Z Blogging Challenge. However, when I reread How do I love thee… by Browning or ‘One Art’...