Sting and Nest by Barbara Rockman
Sting and Nest by Barbara Rockman received the 2012 National Press Women Poetry Book Prize and the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. I’ve attended two day-long AROHO conferences and two summer retreats at Ghost Ranch. At every event I found myself held in a community of women who became my sister writers, friends, inspiration and teachers. AROHO gives me refuge and courage to write my bravest poems. It offers the...
Ordinary Angels by Bridget Birdsall
Ordinary Angels, by Bridget Birdsall AROHO planted the seed of possibility in my sometimes dialectic dyslexic writer’s brain that the VOICES of women are sorely needed in the world and that one of those VOICES might just be mine. Thank you AROHO for helping me believe in myself and my writing! As Barb Johnson says, “when one women wins, we all win!” –Bridget Berdsall
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok New York Times and Globe and Mail best-selling book The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. Through stunning prose and original art created by the author in tandem with the text, The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how...
Eloise Klein Healy, 2011 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge
The 2011 To the Lighthouse finalist judge is Eloise Klein Healy, the first Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Post Update: Click here to see Eloise’s selected winner, Jessica Piazza.
“Quick and Clever,” by Allison Alsup
Sing little bluebird Fly round and round I am eight and reading out loud to my mother, showing off the English I have learned in school. I am the third or fourth best reader. Soon I will be first. My mother pulls a needle, ties a knot and clips the thread. She is mending. Her basket is full as it is every New Year and fall, when the men return from the fields, from Castroville, Fresno, Stockton. She sews busted collars, broken frog...
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