Jennifer Beebe Awarded Spring 2011 Orlando Poetry Prize
Apr01

Jennifer Beebe Awarded Spring 2011 Orlando Poetry Prize

JENNIFER BEEBE is a poet, a mother, and an English and creative writing teacher. Her work can be found in Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, Cider Press Review, and Seattle Review among others. Her manuscript, Again an Oath in the Face of Absence, is an AROHO To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize finalist, a Beatrice Hawley Book Award finalist, and a St. Lawrence Book Award finalist. Jennifer’s winning poem, “The...

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Sting and Nest by Barbara Rockman
Mar01

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...

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Ordinary Angels by Bridget Birdsall
Jan28

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

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The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
Jan11

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...

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Eloise Klein Healy, 2011 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge
Jan01

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.

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