Women make waves when
. . .
We release the safety of a select, bounded circle around our creative lives
to open what is precious and valuable to us for engagement and expansion
We release the injustice of a woman’s “duty”
to claim the agency which sustains our creative wellbeing
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Our “hands are water wings” from Water Women by Alla Bozarth, Waves: A Confluence of Women’s Voices
“Dragging Virginia’s Body Out of the Ouse (detail)” by Christy Sheffield Sanford, section image for Waves: A Confluence of Women’s Voices
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Now You Must Love This Too
[each title is a link to the individual work]
Bernard Brings a Drink by Jill Barth
Woman Waiting by Antonia Clark
Elegy to a Woman Writer, A Friend by Barbara Rockman
When the Moonlight by Berwyn Moore
Visit to Sete by Lynn Tudor Deming
Untitled jisei series by Shirley Plummer
Lady Lazarus by Jacqueline Doyle
Cycle for Nembetsu Udori, Festival to Summon
Ancestral Spirits by Judy Schavrien
Singing at the End by Molly Scott
Responsibility by Shirley Plummer
October Ends by Marsha Howland
Why You’re Afraid of the Road by Charlotte Muse
Beginning the Journey by Ruth Thompson
At the Whaling Museum, Point Lobos by Ruth Thompson
Incantation by Maureen Cummins
Bring Me the God of Mrs. Garcia by Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Where God Lives by Jeanne Bryner
Isles of the Wise by Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
The Ghigau Women by Sun Cooper
Abbey of Our Lady at Gethsemani by Sherry Chandler
Questions for the Angel Gabriel II by Anna Hundert
Mother of the Disappeared by Roz Spafford
A Village of Their Own by Niloufar Behrooz
Safe House by Jude Rittenhouse
Poem as a Field of Action by Berwyn Moore
The Arbor of Chance by Peggy Dobreer
Summer at Twenty-One by Eva M. Schlesinger
Next to You, Permanence by Elizabeth Jacobson
Horseshoe Crab Fandango by Nancy Krim
Stone Love by Joanna Clapps Herman
Psalm of Fire and Water by Cristina Baptista
Women’s Work by Jude Rittenhouse
Sleeping Under Snow by Susan Austin
The Last I Saw Mitsou by Karin Cecile Davidson
On the Need to Re-establish Sovereignty Over My Own Heart by Trina Porte
Rebuilding the ’63 Beetle by Nancy Krim
There Was a Door by Leatha Kendrick
The Potential of Yellow Roses by Susan J. Erickson
Woman of Myriad Seeds by Margaret Stetler
She Let Herself Go by George Ella Lyon
How will you begin? by Barbara Rockman
Writing the Dress by Barbara Rockman
Read the Anthology Section in Full: Now You Must Love This Too
“Clouds and Reflection” by Kathleen Schlarb
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My writing means everything to me. It is my heartbeat. It heavily influences the way I move through this life. If I don’t have writing, I don’t have a true safe outlet to hold on to my secrets, scars, the pieces of me that I rarely let anyone see. My writing is a huge signifier that I’m not just existing, but that I’m living, that I’m alive.
“What does my writing mean to me” by Chántelle Agbro
