How To Conjure the Power of Lynching! ~~~~ Baby Mama? Terrorist Bump? Too Black! ~~~~ Audio below from the Race and Poetry panel — from the PennSound blog: Recorded September 21, 2008 as part of this year’s BOOG City Festival, “Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental” is a panel discussion organized and moderated by Amy…
Thanks, George Bush, for your anti-social, soul-sucking-religious, hate-mongering, anti-thinking, old-boy networking, pro-rich scaffolding policies and legacy. Thanks for the war, the recession, and the imminent depression. Thanks for conflating government with yours and your pals’ profit-making agendas. Thanks for ignoring, and in many cases dehumanizing, everyone not seated at your very small table, and thanks…
I’m not fond of this awesome blog’s name, “Women Against Sarah Palin,” (wish it were “People Against McCain’s Camp,” though that wouldn’t draw as much attention), but I *am* down with the sentiment behind the naming: Just because McCain picked a female running-mate doesn’t instantly mean women will blindly vote for her. Palin’s got some…
Poet, Marilyn Hacker, sent the following to the Women’s Poetry Listserv this morning: ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Nancy Keenan, NARAL Pro-Choice America <CAN@prochoiceamerica.org> Date: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:11 AM Subject: Bush attacks women’s access to birth control We found out some truly disturbing news. Just hours ago The New York Times reported…
AMY KING 