Dama Gladiola by Lyndia Radice
“Dama Gladiola” by Lyndia Radice ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Lyndia Radice Artist Statement: Throughout my life, I have drawn, painted, and taken photographs. Music and art are essential parts of my spiritual practice: I strive to see that which matters. I use a mirror reflection technique to photograph plants, rocks, trees, and creatures. These...
Overcomers – Now and in the Future by Tonia Martin
“Overcomers – Now and in the Future” by Tonia Martin We mined our histories with feathers. We remembered the lies that blew out the light. We owned our partial blindness. We owned our imprisoned hopes. One of us kicked in her own blood, another wandered in the valley of the shadows, another carried water for others while dying of thirst. Some of us witnessed demons; others, the blood-letting of fake love. All...
Heart Pebbles by Kathleen Schlarb
“Heart Pebbles” by Kathleen Schlarb ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Kathleen Schlarb Artist Statement: Kathleen Mannix Schlarb is an artist, poet, writer born September 16th,1948, third child of Edgar P. Mannix, Jr. MD and Elizabeth A. Lindquist Mannix. She was raised in Manhasset, NY. She majored in Art at University of Dayton, Ohio, graduated in 1971...
what comes in waves
What comes in waves? Our art, our words, our names, our experience. The call-and-response of a sacred sisterhood. An inclusive mother archive of our intention and significance. Make waves. Submit Your Art & Writing _________________________________________________________ All the sleeping women are now awake and moving. Yosano Okiko . . . Because we know, deep in our bones,...
incantation
Come here, fear. I am alive and you are so afraid of dying. Joy Harjo . . . Indeed, the female territory might well be envisioned as one long border, and independence for women, not as a separate country, but as open access to the sea. Myra Jehlen _________________________________________________________ Submit Your Art & Writing to WAVES “Salacia” by Kathy...
