Nominated, for the Pushcart Prize, two of my poems: Two Immigrants Meet in a Chemistry Lab and Marriage License in ’60s Boston. Thank you Kelsey Review.
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Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists
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Read or browse short prose histories of near 90 remarkable women, who were born up to near the Civil War. They were important activists, painters, sculptors, authors, journalists, editors, preachers, and poets. NOW available as an ebook! Only $7.
In Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists, (also a paperback, on Amazon) learn more of women who were interesting activists in early American history. Some were abolitionists, some early suffragettes, some supported their families, some were daring, and all truly determined.
Have you heard of Anne Bradstreet, Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Hannah Griffitts, Judith Sargent Murray, Old Elizabeth, Jarena Lee, the Grimké sisters, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft…? There are well-known names, too, like Louisa May Alcott, Sojourner Truth…
In addition to a standard index of all of the women there is a separate Chronological Index of the Black and Native-American Women, as well as a Chronology of Important Historical Events (laws, wars, rebellions, organizations, and more, noted in the biographies).
New Poems
Cape Cod
After Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950
Read my poem on MacQueen’s Quinterly. It begins
Most summer visitors to a beach
walk the sand, collect shells,
or admire sandpipers’ rush from ripples.
But Hopper lets none of this distract him…
Read The Old Man and the Sea in US1 Worksheets. It begins
We saw him run
tall on his surfboard
following the wave curve
rush ahead of breaking froth,
till a long glide to the shore.
On the rock jetty we cheered,
while perhaps thirty heads
looked on from behind…
Read Early Spring Biking the Lenape Trail in Tiny Seed and in the anthology Poetry of the Wild Flowers. The poem begins
A green aura creeps into bushes. I inhale
this in-between gap-time
flanked by fixed seasons, and resolve life
is too slow to précis,
to enscribe, as youth, middle age, old…
No Longer Silent… Women Inventors, Scientists
Read a small slice of life or work – of 70 women (and a girl) from many parts of the world, and from ancient times to now, Read short easy-to-read (sometimes amusing) poems. You may have heard of some of the women, but not all. Do you know how a coffee filter was invented? Who at first was not interested in a dishwasher? And what about those Titanic lifeboats? A cure for leprosy? Windshield wipers? Silk? Who figured out atom-splitting while hiking in snow?
Brave Women Spies, Soldiers, Rebels
Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Women, Women: Soldiers, Spies of Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
Twenty-two women are described in loose poetic form, giving an introductory slice of each woman’s life. Daring brave Black or White women were rebels, soldiers, or spies. They were strongly supportive of the Revolution, the North, or the South.
See this book for sale on US Amazon either in paperback or ebook. Also in the Amazon UK
Lavinia Kumar – poetry, science, books, art 