Harvey Milk --
then and now -- essay by Janet Mason
Pride in the Village (LGBT rights in NYC & India) -- click here
NY Pride Photos
Augusten Burroughs ...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
New (!!!!) Philadelphia Poets 2009 featured poets Annie Rachele Lanzillotto and Lili Bita
Toni
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....
Tea
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.
Three
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
NEW
(!!) Hitching
To Nirvana excerpt --OZ -- That
evening she sets out in search of
the
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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