by inannaadmin | Apr 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, Penn Kemp, Susan McCaslin, and host Richard-Yves Sitoski presented thirty Canadian poets in response to precarious events in the world for a special Oh!Sound online celebration of poetry. What better time...
by inannaadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain....
by inannaadmin | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
I recall a few lines of a narrative poem by Nima Yushij, one of my favorite poets. The character of the story, a poor fisherman coming upon a mermaid one stormy night, says to himself: I must follow my own path/no one will take care of me/amidst the turmoil of...
by inannaadmin | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely forced authors to put tradition aside when it comes to promoting their books, and find creative and innovative ways to get the attention of readers. Bookstore customers sitting on folding chairs, clutching cups of punch while the...
by inannaadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
49th Shelf Browses Books in Death Like the figure she describes in her ekphrastic poem “Clotho” as “Ensnared in long tentacles of hair, skeletal, toothless, chiseled in white marble…” Martonfi’s The Tempest has hewn her own spare...
by inannaadmin | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
A match made in heaven! If ever two women were meant to collaborate on a high-stakes political thriller, it is Hillary Rodham Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State, and Louise Penny, best-selling Canadian author of crime fiction. Drawing on their areas of expertise,...
by inannaadmin | Nov 29, 2021 | Job Postings, Uncategorized
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by inannaadmin | Sep 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ciuri ciuri Ciuri, ciuri, ciuri di tuttu l’annu l’amuri ca mi dasti ti lu tornu. Ciuri, ciuri, ciuri di tuttu l’annu l’amuri ca mi dasti ti lu tornu. Flower, flowers Flower, flowers, flowers all the year The love you gave me I give you back...
by inannaadmin | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I began to write Memory’s Shadow, my second novel, I knew the story had to be set in St. Louis. As the old adage goes: ‘Write what you know.’ Although I have not lived in Missouri for decades, St. Louis is my birthplace and the site of my fondest childhood...
by inannaadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
With the slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, ’vaccine nationalism’ is only slightly more rife than the calls against it. The focus on ‘vaccine nationalism’ by critical thinkers and activists around the world misses some key lessons of the pandemic elaborated in my...
