Charles Bukowski said, “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” In that statement, poetry is our last resort, the big guns, the form of communication that saves us when all else fails. In that statement, poetry is our truest form of expression, the most poignant way of assembling letters and words, the truest descriptions […]

There is something about reading the direct words of a woman; the direct words of a woman telling her story. It is, perhaps, the most intimate lens into the psyche, the processes, the pain, and the purpose of a woman we admire. It is the power of a memoir. Not second hand words. No third […]