#sharon doubiago

[garadinervi]

We Sing Our Struggles. A Tribute To Us All For Meridel Le Sueur, Edited by Mary McAnally, Cardinal Press, Tulsa, OK, 1982 [Between the Covers, Gloucester City, NJ]

Contributors: Will Inman, John Crawford, Joy Harjo, Joseph Napora, Vincent Ferrini, Thomas McGrath, and Sharon Doubiago among others

[scorcidipoesia]

“Mia madre è una poesia che non sarò mai in grado di scrivere, anche se tutto quello che scrivo è una poesia a mia madre.”

— Sharon Doubiago

[poesiablog60]

Mia madre è una poesia che non sarò mai in grado di scrivere, anche se tutto quello che scrivo è una poesia a mia madre".

Sharon Doubiago

[katmasteryoda]

Doom'd 3 & 4

Fall and Rebirth

The first trial of our hero's youth has been experienced with doom'd 1 crash landing us into this world and doom'd 2 interacting to determine which elements to keep, which to overhaul, a methodology for establishing common purpose, building shared vision and defending a viable structure whereby morals, ethics and principles take center stage and make challenging end games. We aspire to creative manifestation on all fronts having followed true to purpose the likes of Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Doubiago, RLJ, Joni, Wolf, St. Jean de Baptist, magdelayne & Hosea.

That art must be said. Shown. Expressed. Paint on paper, canvas, carved wood, chilseled stone, light and shadow, mystery of eyes, glimmer of bitter omens bitumen pimento sinking ships.

Thinking how many times this week alone I've Been Told the world's coming to an imminent end.

🦙knowing knowing knowing the worst is yet to come

🏹(ー_ー)

[litteratured]

A.D. Winans « Eugene Ruggles Tribute.mov

{Roads of Bread} On Wed Feb 9 11 Jack Hirschman, Sharon Doubiago, A.D. Winans, Geri Digiorno, Carl Macki, Lucy Lang Day, Bill Vartnaw, Delia Moon and friends read some of Eugene Ruggles' poems and some of their own to celebrate the poet on the occasion of the release of his collected works, Roads of Bread (Petaluma RIver Press).

[julesofnature]

My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

Sharon Doubiago

[rockislandadultreads]

More Nonfiction Book Recs: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

Choice Words edited by Annie Finch

This landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and literary essays about abortion, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, is a powerful collection of timely pieces on the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, this book spans continents and centuries; the manuscript includes Audre Lorde, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton, Amy Tan, Gloria Steinem, Ursula Le Guin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joyce Carol Oates, Gloria Naylor, Dorothy Parker, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anne Sexton, Ntozake Shange, Sholeh Wolpe, Ai, Jean Rhys, Mahogany L. Browne, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Frank O’Hara, Vi Khi Nao, Sharon Olds, Judith Arcana, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Molly Peacock, Carol Muske-Dukes, Mo Yan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Kathy Acker, Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, Sharon Doubiago, and numerous other classic and contemporary writers including voices from Canada, France, China, India, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, and Pakistan.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jane Sherron De Hart

In this comprehensive, revelatory biography - fifteen years of interviews and research in the making - historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence.

At the heart of her story and abiding beliefs is her Jewish background, specifically the concept of tikkun olam, the Hebrew injunction to “repair the world,” with its profound meaning for a young girl who grew up during the Holocaust and World War II.

Ruth’s journey begins with her mother, who died tragically young but whose intellect inspired her daughter’s feminism. It stretches from Ruth’s days as a baton twirler at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School to Cornell University to Harvard and Columbia Law Schools; to becoming one of the first female law professors in the country and having to fight for equal pay and hide her second pregnancy to avoid losing her job; to becoming the director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and arguing momentous anti-sex discrimination cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

All this, even before being nominated in 1993 to become the second woman on the Court, where her crucial decisions and dissents are still making history. Intimately, personably told, this biography offers unprecedented insight into a pioneering life and legal career whose profound mark on American jurisprudence, American society, and our American character and spirit will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond.

Credible by Deborah Tuerkheimer

In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence examines why allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse are often not believed - and why we live in a nation that is both culturally and legally structured to doubt and dismiss accusers. Sexual misconduct accusations rest on opposing viewpoints: her word against his. How do we decide who is telling the truth? The answer comes down to credibility. But as this eye-opening book reveals, deciding which side to believe isn’t as straightforward as it seems. Our judgment is complicated by invisible forces - false assumptions and hidden biases imbedded in our culture, our legal system, and our psyches - that create blind spots impairing our ability to accurately hear and respond fairly. In Credible, Deborah Tuerkheimer provides a much-needed framework to help us better understand credibility, explaining how we perceive it, how and why our perceptions are distorted, and how those distortions harm individual lives. Because of societal hierarchies and inequalities, who we disbelieve is predictable and patterned, leading to what Tuerkheimer calls the “credibility discount” - our dismissal of certain kinds of statements by certain kinds of speakers, including women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, immigrants, and other marginalized individuals. The rise of the #MeToo movement has exposed this inequity - how these victims have been badly served by a system that is not designed to protect them. Using case studies, moving first-hand accounts, science, and the law, Tuerkheimer identifies patterns and their causes, analyzes the role of power, and examines the close, reciprocal relationship between culture and law - to help us more clearly determine who and what is credible. #MeToo has touched off a massive reckoning. Credible helps us forge a path forward to ensuring fair, equitable treatment of the countless individuals affected by sexual misconduct.

The Family Roe by Joshua Prager

Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers - a previously unseen trove - and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America. Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma’s life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe. Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption. Prager found those women, including the youngest - Baby Roe - now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception. The Family Roe abounds in such revelations - not only about Norma and her children but about the broader “family” connected to the case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd, a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets. An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life.

[loudlylovingreview]

Sharon Doubiago: Jesus was a Terrorist

Sharon Doubiago: Jesus was a Terrorist

“The most important deficiency in the U.S. counterterrorism policy has been the failure to address the root causes of terrorism.” Philip C. Wilcox Jr., former US Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, September 2001.

1.  The Week Before September 11The novelist defined a terrorist as one who has no heart, cares for nothing but himself. Another character in her book Mother…

[anastasiaoftheironwood]

The Kickstarter is in its last few days—ends June 14, 2019 at 8:59 PM PDT. In addition to claiming your own copy, you can choose reward levels that also give a copy to a clinic or prison.

Edited by @anniefinch, and filled with stories by an amazing group of women authors: “ Audre Lorde, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton, Amy Tan, Gloria Steinem, Ursula Le Guin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joyce Carol Oates, Gloria Naylor, Dorothy Parker, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anne Sexton, Ntozake Shange, Sholeh Wolpe, Ai, Jean Rhys, Mahogany L. Browne, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Frank O’Hara,  Vi Khi Nao, Sharon Olds, Judith Arcana, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Molly Peacock, Carol Muske-Dukes, Mo Yan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Kathy Acker, Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, Sharon Doubiago, and numerous other classic and contemporary writers including voices from Canada, France, China, India, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, and Pakistan.“

[thewordcollector3]

Writing is something you do alone in a room...If you’re Sharon Doubiago, your room is your van; if you’re the young Ernest Hemingway, your room is a café table; if you’re Emily Dickinson, your room is your garden; if you’re Marcel Proust, your room is your bed...But whoever you are, whatever shape it takes, that room is the center of your life and it’s very crowded. Everything you are and everything you’re not backs you up against the wall and stares at you. You stare back. And eventually you get some writing done.

Michael Ventura, from his essay “The Talent of the Room”

[our-verystudentgarden]

“Mia madre è una poesia

che non sarò mai in grado di scrivere

anche se tutto quello che scrivo

è una poesia a mia madre."

(Sharon Doubiago)

[smallpressdistribution]

Naked to the Earth, by Sharon Doubiago (Wild Ocean Press) is "the distillation of a lifetime by a poet who.. has not given anyone the power to make her hate" #SPDhandpicked

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[pithia]

My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

Sharon Doubiago

[julesofnature]

“My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”  ~Sharon Doubiago

“My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I photograph is a poem to my mother.”  ~ J Marion Brown

Happy Mother’s Day!

[loudlylovingreview]

Sharon Doubiago: Maybe the Revolution

Sharon Doubiago: Maybe the Revolution

  I love your poem insisting good will return,

we have to have faith. But now is

bad. At the Foreign Film Festival Awards

the filmmaker of The Road to Guantanamo

broke down on stage, mid-acceptance speech, and sobbed.

And didn’t stop sobbing. Maybe

this is the revolution, that we all break down

crying and do not stop.                        

  The next day three men at Guantanamo Bay

were found…