Poetry – Women – Words
Lorna Simpson talks about her career, including her recent practice of appropriating and restaging mid-20th-century photographs.
* Why Black History Month Still Matters
* Pollitt speaks on women’s equality struggles
* Women Stage Massive Protests Across Italy: ‘The Sexism Is Intolerable ‘ (Video)
* Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and “Fun” Feminism
* Hatem addresses emergence of Islamic feminist movement
* Poets putting feelings on paper – “The Young Basadzi project has created a platform for young women to come together and share their stories.”
* ‘Womanist’: Saying Who We Are
* Join The Feminist Press at CUNY on Facebook
* From Tahrir square to Dakar and back again
* Positive signs for Islamic feminist movement
* Stand with Planned Parenthood
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.