Madwomen in the Attic celebrates three decades of writing workshops for women with readings by and in honor of its founders. The program, housed at Carlow University and open to the public, offers six different workshops.
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Venezuelan writer Beverly Pérez Rego talks about non-tradition, shamanism, “uprootedness,” feminism, and how women writers create subversive texts.
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, Edwidge Danticat’s recently published book of essays, begins with an execution. Danticat meticulously describes the death of Marcel Numa and Louis Drouin, two members of a guerilla army that […]
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Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti’s notorious dictator, returned home. We caught up with Edwidge Danticat over email to hear about her reaction to his return.
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Video editing and production by Glen Wood “All of our heroes have blood on their hands,” the poet Yusef Komunyakaa muses in this interview about the history of racism in the United States. Over his more […]
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Just this month, Zimbabwean police launched a manhunt for an editor accused of publishing a false story during the 2008 elections. Are hopes fading for greater press freedom in the country? Two exiled writers discuss President […]
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Women Who Don’t Bite Their Tongues: Writing Workshop Celebrates More Than Thirty Years On a recent October morning, the Madwomen in the Attic poetry workshop began with an argument. A student shared a poem written by […]
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