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Vol. 30 June 09

Lesvos -- Sappho's cliffsHarvey Milk -- then and now -- essay by Janet Mason

Pride in the Village (LGBT rights in NYC & India) -- click here
NY Pride Photos
Augusten Burroughs
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Sappho........Capote & Cather__ Dickinson ....
Jeanette Winterson
....CAConrad.... James Baldwin ...Anita Cornwell....Maria Fama


a woman alone -- poems of Greece

 

New(!!!) View Janet Mason's new gallery of photos and videos -- Urban Street Tunes

Upcoming writing classes, click here --Next Session Fall 09


parthenon carytids Philadelphia Poets 2009New (!!!!) Philadelphia Poets 2009 featured poets Annie Rachele Lanzillotto and Lili BitaAudre Lorde, black, lesbian poet -- visionary

NEW!!! Featured essay ---Then and Now – gay TV and remembering Audre Lorde

Happy Birthday Harvey Milk (May, 22nd) -- click here for commentary aired on This Way Out

 

 


 

Toni Brown poetToni Brown -- 11/4/08 - 4/19/08 -- in memoriam -- new poems, audio
Portrait of a friendship: in memoriam Toni P. Brown, 11/4/52 to 4/17/08
links to Toni's poetry and audio clips of Toni reading her own work

 

Maralyn Lois Polak...Alexandra Grilikhes....more featured writers....

 


my mother and me, her daughterTea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters
I took my mother's death extremely hard. All the strength that I had when I was taking care of her drained out of me. In the first months, and even through the first year, I became ill frequently and was often so tired that I had to take a nap in the afternoons. I dreaded talking to casual acquaintances because when they asked what was new I would have to tell them...click here.

 

 


 

eye  write Sapphics Greek poetryThree Sapphics
a woman alone is touch...she hears herself in wind...
read more about a woman alone
(Janet Mason) traveling in Athens, Crete, and Lesvos...
CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO

New--Sapphics for Alexandra Grilikhes


 

 

Hitching To Nirvana novel excerpts -- authored by Janet MasonNEW (!!) Hitching To Nirvana excerpt --OZ -- That evening she sets out in search of gay angel at NY Pride March 08the jazz that was born in bordellos and played in the mournful and jubilant processions that spirited the dead away to a place that is said to be better.
--"Art" -- Adrianne watches as the thick stream of smoke dissipates in the general dinginess of the bathroom, into the dreariness of their lives without Art.
--Salt and Water -- I was once a perfect rise of sea. Salt water consumed me.
--To the Ocean -- Voices whispered: do it, do it, do it.

-- The Sirens --
She was forty-five years old. Where had the years gone?

 

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