by Jan English Leary
“I turned to fiction writing because I wanted to dive beneath what we can see, to delve into what drives us, our feelings, our yearnings and desires, our fears and our revulsions, the whole thicket of our emotions.” Continue reading
by Joan Schweighardt
“I don’t want to miss anything. All my life my goal was to photograph beauty, and as a result I never before had a chance to be ‘in’ it.” Continue reading
by Ericka Taylor
“What happens to these characters beyond that story? What sustains them as they venture farther out into the world, sometimes without each other, sometimes with each other, but always subjected to cultural pressures about who they should be and what they should look like?”
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Retirement from teaching in 1985—when she was 72—is what prompted Dow to try her hand at acting in television and film. At a time when most people are settling down to enjoy their golden years, Dow opted to begin a new career entirely. IMDB credits her with 102 total roles, the first of which was in the film American Drive-In. At age 100, she continues to act and inspire. Continue reading
Those endless closets and halls
in the brain where the unknown hides; that open for a
moment and then close again. That is where the
poems come from. Continue reading
by Kim Church
When the women of Gee’s Bend sit down to piece a quilt, they don’t wait for a pattern to manifest itself. They don’t have that luxury. They have to work quickly because their lives are full of other work—in the fields, in their homes, among their families. A skilled quilter works “in the lap,” piecing and stitching as she goes, so that the whole design isn’t revealed until the quilt is done. Continue reading
by Rachel Leal and Juhi Singhal Karan
“The two women were based partly on people [Charles Frazier] knew as a child, ‘very strong, independent women who had a level of self-possession and self-mastery that runs counter to that stereotype of women in that culture.’” Continue reading
Bloom 