There are a number of ways to approach and understand Lynda Smith Hoggan’s Our Song: A Memoir of Love and Race and all of them are valid and interesting. Her book is the memoir of a romance that she began as a young person in the early 1970s. Hoggan had gone to college away from her …
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Cultural Daily’s contributor-poet Stephanie Barbé Hammer recently turned the tables, interviewing poet-memoirist Carolyne Wright. They talked about Wright’s intriguing new book Masquerade, a memoir written as poetry, not prose, about how Wright came to write it, and about crafting poems like the ones in Masquerade. Read all about it, below. Stephanie Barbé Hammer (“SBH”): Could …
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An excerpt from Sailor Girl: a Memoir by Athena Lark *** The cage was just big enough for me to sit in. On both sides of me in a neat line, sat twenty identical cages holding my fellow comrades. The screaming over the loudspeakers above us drowned out the cries and prayers of those among …
It must have been difficult for Allen Callaci to follow his memoir Heart Like a Starfish, which is a painfully intimate discussion of his near-death heart replacement surgery and the way he dealt with the reality of mortality. His newest memoir, 17 & Life, takes just as sensitive an approach to life and death. I …
This short piece of my memoir reflects on two of the women artists who influenced me growing up—among them Elaine de Kooning, Mary Abbott, Edith Schloss, Jane Wilson, Fay Lansner, and Yvonne Jacquette. * Jane Freilicher, 1924-2014, was the Morandi, the Odilon Redon, of the New York School of painters, focusing on still lives and …
I’ve recently read three strong memoirs written by three unique and passionate women. Two are touted on most best-selling book lists for 2018, one published in January 2019, and all three clearly demonstrate how contemporary American women have truly thrust themselves out of the shadow of men into their own well-deserved and hard-earned limelight. The …
my father had a way of walking that maybe was what first made me think of him and Sugar Ray in the same sentence…like a fighter. my father didn’t walk or amble or shamble…he kinda glided, which was probably very attractive to the ladies when he was young or maybe even not so young, as it …
John Yamrus is the author of 25 books of poetry, two novels, a children’s book, and two memoirs, the highly acclaimed MemoryLane and the just-published RMA. I caught up with him recently through the miracle of technology. Here are the juicy bits of our conversation: Eileen Murphy (EM): You wrote your first memoir, Memory Lane, last year, recalling your …
[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] “[O]ld Time is still a-flying: / and this same flower that smiles / to day, Tomorrow will be dying” (Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time”). John Yamrus’s new memoir John Yamrus, jazz fan and …
pointing & laughing if you look closely at the cover photo for my book… notice the iron-on patches on my knees. i remember when Mrs. Dula (across the street) made a big deal of laughing at me, saying “what’s the matter, can’t you afford good clothes?” i can still see it today.. we were in …
David Kaczynski is known to most as the brother of the Unabomber, whose homemade explosive devices claimed the lives of three people and injured dozens of others. Much less is known about David, the poet who authored a collection of poetry called A Dream Named You, the philosopher who loves metaphysics and Heidegger, the high …
(“Tomorrow’s Voices Today“ is a new series curated by poet and educator Mike Sonksen.) * I woke up in the lounge car with a pain in my neck and my face buried in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Sunrise. The Mojave Desert zoomed by the train windows and orange lit up the sky. A …
The following is an excerpt from Lori Jakiela’s Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe. *** My grandfather was an orphan like me. His mother delivered him to an orphanage one day when he was nine or 10. She packed a small suitcase — clothes, a child’s Bible. She said she couldn’t afford to …
The translation of nonfiction literature into film is a daunting task. Difficulties range from adapting sensitive subject matter to condensing complex stories into a cinematic framework. Literature allows both writer and reader to experience the subject on a more intimate level and requires a much greater commitment on the reader’s part rather than just watching …
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