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Poet Warrior Review

Harjo’s Portal to Grace Through poetry and unflinching honesty, Poet Warrior tells the story of how the path of Joy Harjo’s life lead her to be a poet and writer. Harjo tells her own life story with flowing poetic prose…

Women Who Run With the Wolves Review

Collecting The Bones and Learning to Howl “If you don’t go out into the woods, nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.” (Estés 462) This quote from Women Who Run With the Wolves epitomizes Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s…

Lorraine Hansberry Synthesis

The Maiden, The Mother, The Crone Ancient tales tell of the three stages of a woman’s life merged with the archetype of the triple goddess – the maiden, the mother, and the crone. Each stage is further symbolized by a…

Summers Before the Fall

It was always summer in the northwest woods of rural Wisconsin. The days were long and sunny, silent but for the bird song from deep in the trees. The milkweed lining the driveway had not yet opened to release its…

A Backdrop of Violence

(Content warning: contains references to violence, suicide, and self harm) I flinched as the pink plastic cat bank slammed against the floor beside my younger cousin’s head. I closed my eyes as her mother yelled in her face, about what…

Not the Day for Promises

I have come to think that January 1st is a terrible day for new beginnings. It’s like setting ourselves up for failure. In the northern hemisphere, the days are dark and cold and short. We’ve just been through an exhausting…

Let’s Not Forget the Joy

In a long life, if we’re lucky enough to live one, we will go through hard times. Days, weeks, months, hopefully not years, of challenges both big and small. Sometimes the slowly applied weight of small things can crush us…