“Flight Theory,” by Allison Adair
Jun24

“Flight Theory,” by Allison Adair

[ezcol_1quarter] Wstawaj, don’t speak, he will wake, and come for you. My hand over your mouth is our goodbye. His black feathers stir, no wind, oil upon oil, his long beak shines. Take this, I have saved it all slowly in a shoe, zrób co mówię, lodge it in the gathers at your waist and never exhale. Run, road to station to the dim nodding ship. Szybko. You will know no one. If you hear me calling you, moja córka, close the door to us....

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“The Immaculate Heart of Mary,” by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Jun24

“The Immaculate Heart of Mary,” by Ingrid Jendrzejewski

Steel City, 1910   Magda descends on Polish Hill like so much of the metal whose siren song lured our fathers and grandfathers away from their matki and motherland. Within a week, she is selling newspapers on the street corners. Within two, she has us organised. We wear our brothers’ clothing, we cut our hair. She teaches us to spit; we forget our breasts. She brings us papers and we sell them. We take our pennies, she takes a...

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Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
Jun24

Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly

Buy from Norton Watch the Trailer The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses–some as short as a sentence, some a paragraph or a page— into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to arrive...

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“Goner,” by Beth Ann Fennelly
Jun24

“Goner,” by Beth Ann Fennelly

  That Friday, after morning mass, the priests visited our third grade and announced a meeting for prospective altar boys. I went.  Me, a girl.  Why did I go?  First, I was attracted to the theatrics: the costuming with the alb and the cincture, the stately procession down the aisle with the cross and the thurible (the censer filled with incense) that one of the altar boys (the thurifer) swung on its Jacob Marley chains.  I...

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2017 Reading as Fellowship
May27

2017 Reading as Fellowship

[ezcol_2third_end] These readings are my offerings to all of you. Listen to these poems once, twice. Perhaps one will speak to you strongly enough that you will choose to learn it by heart. Then write beautiful words of your own. Because they are the ones I most need. —Michelle Wing   When our AROHO board held its retreat in March, we were asked to bring some type of small gift or offering. As I sat in my writing studio, thinking...

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how to get over by t’ai freedom ford
May06

how to get over by t’ai freedom ford

  “From the moment the poet declares that there’s a ‘plantation in them lungs,’ and sets the stage for a starkly ‘muscled music,’ you may as well let loose your rigid misconceptions about what poetry can do and steel yourself as it becomes the way your body moves from one exclamation to the other. Each of these lean and urgent poems, bulging with insistent energy and image, is a hallmark of t’ai freedom ford’s fierce...

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Open Circle Gathering & Book Gifting
May06

Open Circle Gathering & Book Gifting

In New York on May 12, 2017? Gather with us from 5-7pm just outside the home of the largest collection of Virginia Woolf’s personal writings (the Berg Collection at NYPL Main) to give and receive books we love by women writers and artists. Check AROHO on Twitter for changes due to weather. We will build a monument together and take these gifts back to our communities to be read and given, read and given again as part of our...

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“making art is like blindly seeing…”
Apr26

“making art is like blindly seeing…”

“…the shape of what you don’t yet know.” —Teresita Fernandez

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Our Invitation, Our Circle
Apr14

Our Invitation, Our Circle

At the start of 2017, we extended an invitation to you to join our new AROHO circle by reading and signing Our Purpose, and to enter into a shared dialogue with creative women by entering The Q.   We are heartened that so many of you from around the world have already joined with us in our purpose, and intrigued and touched by the resonant responses of those of you who entered The Q. We are grateful that you are a part of our...

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“sacrifice nothing to seemliness”
Apr10

“sacrifice nothing to seemliness”

All is rather rapt, simple, quick, effective—except for my blundering on at The Waves…Still I am not satisfied. I think there is something lacking. I sacrifice nothing to seemliness. I press to my centre. I don’t care if it all is scratched out. And there is something there. I incline now to try violent shots…shouldering my way ruthlessly—and then, if nothing comes of it—anyhow I have examined the possibilities.  ...

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