Orlando Writers and the Rising Wave
Apr01

Orlando Writers and the Rising Wave

What a deep writerly pleasure it was for me to read the most recent Orlando submissions and to make the final selections. It was not surprising that the work that came in was so various and so fine—but such work always surprises the mind and the spirit and heart. I send my thanks to all for the privilege of reading, and congratulations to the winners and finalists. The winners of this Orlando cycle will be included in a new AROHO...

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Blood Sugar Canto by Ire’ne Lara Silva
Mar21

Blood Sugar Canto by Ire’ne Lara Silva

  “Being named the 2013 Fiction Genre Finalist for the Gift of Freedom Award validated me as a fiction writer and buoyed my belief that I could push forward with my projects and that they would find an audience.” —Ire’ne Lara Silva   Buy on Amazon “Silva is a poet-curandera who “sings the body electric,” transforming suffering into song. She probes the ways that love, justice and...

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Words Like Love by Tanaya Winder
Feb18

Words Like Love by Tanaya Winder

  Buy on Amazon How do we pronounce words like love? How do we believe in them, and how can we apply them to the missing, wounded and massacred: To the missing indigenous women in North America, to a wounded culture, a dying language and the open grave of a massacred history that we refuse to stare into? Tanaya Winder seeks to articulate this heartbreak in her debut collection of poetry, Words Like Love, poems that act as a...

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AROHO Literary Thumbprint
Jan13

AROHO Literary Thumbprint

AROHO has inspired and supported countless women, women whose works have gone on to inspire and change the lives of so many others. This thumbprint is a representation of the mark AROHO has made on the literary world. Our thanks to all of the women who took part in making this gift possible.   Title Sponsored by 67 Ways to Save the Animals Anna Sequoia A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain Robin Vidimos A Room of One’s...

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River Electric with Light by Sarah Wetzel
Nov24

River Electric with Light by Sarah Wetzel

River Electric with Light, winner of the 2012 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize. Judge: Tracy K. Smith Buy this Book “Sarah Wetzel’s River Electric with Light is a work in search of the sacred and the spiritually significant. Touching down in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Kabul, New York, and Rome, Wetzel’s poems, ranging from lyric meditations to discursive drama, weave themselves from her life as wife, lover, stepmother, and...

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