A dream that won’t let us sleep. Answer the thumping from within.
Feb12

A dream that won’t let us sleep. Answer the thumping from within.

This Black History Month, the world is buoyed by the beauty and power of Amanda S. C. Gorman, first National Youth Poet Laureate, and the legacy of Anna Julia Cooper, whose 1892 classic feminist text, A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, argued for both racial and gender equality. Each of us, as creative sisters, has a dream that won’t let us sleep. “I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl...

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Off the Moon Path by Jane Schulman
Feb09

Off the Moon Path by Jane Schulman

“Off the Moon Path,” by Jane Schulman   Here’s the dress I wore when we met on the mountain ridge.  Light through pine sparkled gold and scarlet threads. When I slip this dress over my head, I am Helios, God of the Sun, scattering clouds and shadows. For years I followed the moon path – like an eland slips behind a cypress when lions stalk or a sailor reefs the mainsail at the captain’s bark. But on Juniper Ridge my...

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