2017 Reading as Fellowship
May27

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...

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how to get over by t’ai freedom ford
May06

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...

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Open Circle Gathering & Book Gifting
May06

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...

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“making art is like blindly seeing…”
Apr26

“making art is like blindly seeing…”

“…the shape of what you don’t yet know.” —Teresita Fernandez

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Our Invitation, Our Circle
Apr14

Our Invitation, Our Circle

At the start of 2017, we extended an invitation to you to join our new AROHO circle by reading and signing Our Purpose, and to enter into a shared dialogue with creative women by entering The Q.   We are heartened that so many of you from around the world have already joined with us in our purpose, and intrigued and touched by the resonant responses of those of you who entered The Q. We are grateful that you are a part of our...

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