Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield tells us about ancient Japanese poet Ono no Komachi, a woman whose work feels so contemporary that it speaks to Jane as if it is her own experience. Komachi is ...
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a bisexual Mexican nun/writer/inventor, controversial for writing the first Feminist Manifesto in the New World. Playwright Jesse Bliss tells Sor Juana’s story and explains why it gives her hope ...