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The art I aim to produce is often a by-product of my environment and a means to work through the emotional struggles that I embody in just dealing with everyday life.

I always felt the women’s movement, per se, had much in common with the labor movement: people fighting against low pay, squalid working conditions and callous, predatory bosses.

t was a joy to rediscover the work of Alison Stine – her first book of poems, Ohio Violence, fascinated me with its depiction of a Midwestern landscape that many book reviewers have termed “gothic”.

Her dreams wove the reeds into baskets, which, before she woke, they sealed with wax and sent off empty, bobbing, on the river.

—From Jennifer Atkinson’s “Canticle of the Rushes”

“Ladies’ Night” & “Endless Love,” make the human boys

stand outside the ring with their palms out waiting