By Jen Grace |
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A friend of mine said something a couple of evenings ago about stretchmarks being the warrior marks of motherhood, and wanting to change our culture so that they were respected and revered, instead of seen as things to hide and conceal. That started me thinking about my own personal warrior marks. Recently I've become much more comfortable with myself as a warrior. An Amazon, a tigress. Someone who is strong enough to take whatever life dishes out and triumph over it. |
The Compromises of 1876 and 2000 By Manning Marable |
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We have just witnessed, in the United States,
the massive and wholesale theft of the presidency. Yet the |
Multicultural Poetry as Unwritten in China (Or: The Night You Want to Sleep Away) By Ouyang Yu |
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The question came, "Do they write in English?" My answer to that is a definite one: No, they don't. So what? In fact, the recent debate between the so-called "intellectual poets" and "people's poets" focuses on whether Chinese poets should imitate their Western "masters" by quoting them in their obscure and derivative lines and dedicating their poems to them, or whether they should write poems that are founded on the "ordinary life" and take their source from the poet's "original creative power", a phrase much used by the "popular" or "people's poets". |