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Author Biography
Born and raised in California but traveling throughout the United States and Europe, Asia and parts of the Caribbean devorah major served as San Francisco Poet Laureate 2002 through 2006.<!--break--> In in addition to being a poet she is a performer, lecturer, fiction an ...
I grew up in a home where mostly jazz was washed the walls of our flat., jazz without vocals, without words, with loads of bop but no ditty. That and what was to me then a stream of dull talk
We women who came of age during the Black Power Movement, the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and yes the Feminist Movement continue to move in a circle that is, almost always, far diff
“If exile were not a terrible experience, it would be a literary genre.” So begins Christina Peri Rossi in her prologue to her moving book of poetry State of Exile, translated by Maril
“If you live with hope you’re dancing to a terrible tune.” My sister of time and family, if not shared parentage, is reading me a line of graffiti she sees scrawled on the wall as she ride