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How Anne Sexton’s Poem ‘Her Kind’ Turns Pain into Art
How Anne Sexton’s Poem ‘Her Kind’ Turns Pain into Art
In embracing the ‘witch’ figure, Sexton’s “Her Kind” pushes back against stigma. It’s also object lesson in writing well on tough subjects.
Tara Wanda Merrigan
Oct 19, 2019
How Far-Right Internet Forums Are Misusing Ovid’s ‘Ars Amatoria’ and Other Roman and Greek Texts
How Far-Right Internet Forums Are Misusing Ovid’s ‘Ars Amatoria’ an...
Donna Zuckerberg’s ‘Not All Dead White Men’ explores the reductive tendencies of online ‘red pill’ communities
Tara Wanda Merrigan
Jun 11, 2019
How American Protestors Use Apolitical Polish Poetry to Make Anti-Trump Arguments
How American Protestors Use Apolitical Polish Poetry to Make Anti-T...
There is a paradox at the heart of Americans’ use of Polish poetry: these verses are highly politicized but were intended to be apolitical
Tara Wanda Merrigan
Jun 11, 2019
As the Immigration Debate Rages On, a Q&A with DACA Poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
As the Immigration Debate Rages On, a Q&A with DACA Poet Marcelo He...
Castillo, who grew up undocumented, talks reading his first collection ‘Cenzontle’ nationwide and then at his hometown public library.
Tara Wanda Merrigan
Nov 3, 2018
What an Adrienne Rich Poem Says About Writing, Creativity and Gender
What an Adrienne Rich Poem Says About Writing, Creativity and Gender
For Pride Month, I explore the writings of Adrienne Rich, a poet whose work explored female identity, patriarchal oppression, and sexuality
Tara Wanda Merrigan
Jun 17, 2018
How Virginia Woolf Used Fiction to Make a Persuasive Case for Equality
How Virginia Woolf Used Fiction to Make a Persuasive Case for Equality
Woolf invented Shakespeare's sister Judith to advance her feminist argument in "A Room of One's Own"
Tara Wanda Merrigan
May 15, 2018
Why Today’s Feminists Need Both Audre Lorde and Margaret Atwood
Why Today’s Feminists Need Both Audre Lorde and Margaret Atwood
It’s easy to understand why 2018’s feminists, who want a big-tent movement, like Lorde’s circumspect and uncompromising philosophies
Tara Wanda Merrigan
Jan 20, 2018
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