“Goner,” by Beth Ann Fennelly
That Friday, after morning mass, the priests visited our third grade and announced a meeting for prospective altar boys. I went. Me, a girl. Why did I go? First, I was attracted to the theatrics: the costuming with the alb and the cincture, the stately procession down the aisle with the cross and the thurible (the censer filled with incense) that one of the altar boys (the thurifer) swung on its Jacob Marley chains. I...
2017 Reading as Fellowship
[ezcol_2third_end] These readings are my offerings to all of you. Listen to these poems once, twice. Perhaps one will speak to you strongly enough that you will choose to learn it by heart. Then write beautiful words of your own. Because they are the ones I most need. —Michelle Wing When our AROHO board held its retreat in March, we were asked to bring some type of small gift or offering. As I sat in my writing studio, thinking...
how to get over by t’ai freedom ford
“From the moment the poet declares that there’s a ‘plantation in them lungs,’ and sets the stage for a starkly ‘muscled music,’ you may as well let loose your rigid misconceptions about what poetry can do and steel yourself as it becomes the way your body moves from one exclamation to the other. Each of these lean and urgent poems, bulging with insistent energy and image, is a hallmark of t’ai freedom ford’s fierce...
Open Circle Gathering & Book Gifting
In New York on May 12, 2017? Gather with us from 5-7pm just outside the home of the largest collection of Virginia Woolf’s personal writings (the Berg Collection at NYPL Main) to give and receive books we love by women writers and artists. Check AROHO on Twitter for changes due to weather. We will build a monument together and take these gifts back to our communities to be read and given, read and given again as part of our...
“making art is like blindly seeing…”
“…the shape of what you don’t yet know.” —Teresita Fernandez
Art is my taste for freedom. I drown day and day until I pick up my paintbrush once again. So, somehow, I can tell myself that you’re not stuck in this room and that the canvas is the key.
Nina Salvadoré
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