~Tamara Rettino “A lot can happen to a person in a night. In the age of the social network, it can even happen when you’re sleeping. While you’re rosy cheeked and dreaming about Ryan Gosling rescuing you from a flash flood (you do have that dream, right?), a torrential dialogue can play itself out in [...]
~ L.B.Nelson Mellow-strange it is at first. Choiceless soul enwrapped Within the surreal, fleecy blanket of grey clouds Crocheted loosely. Here-and-there Golden, sun-glow threads Woven throughout; Beautiful-sobering; Oddly serene. Seemingly infinite textile; Dissipates slowly, then scatters; Now-and-then sparkles Left behind. Great mercy While stepping through What is left for us to do.
~Jenuine I celebrate my sisters who put pen to paper and give sound to our story and volume to our voice creating a collective consciousness unified in the vision of womyn writers and poets and artists and leaders and thinkers and doers I celebrate my mothers who drew lines in the sand stepping out of [...]
~ Angie Castro FOR HOURS AND HOURS ON THE COLD PAYMENT YOU LAY WHILE A FEW BLOCKS AWAY I WAS DRIFTING AWAY THE SEE THE MOON LIGHT’S FADING THE PHONE RINGS AND I HEAR THE SCREAMS “TELL ME IT’S NOT TRUE AND HE IS THERE THEY TOLD ME HE’S ON HUBBARD & 4TH AND THAT [...]
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural is hosting their 6th Annual Celebrating Words Festival on Saturday May 21, 2011 from 1-7pm at LA Mission College and In the Words of Womyn will be there hosting a networking tent for Emerging Writers and Chapbook sales and YOU are invited! If you are an emerging writer and are interested [...]
You are invited!! And…some of our very own In the Words of Womyn poets will be representing on the mic!! So if you are in the Los Angeles & San Fernando Valley Area, please come out and support our ITWOW writers and all the other incredible authors, musicians, poets, and performers. Oh, and did I mention this [...]
~Jenuine I don’t want a smart phone a smart car or a smart TV I don’t want devices made of plastic and metal to take over my humanity to think for me to decide for me to act for me I never want to forget the feel of fresh, damp, earth in my hands as [...]
~Jenuine I was lost for a minute a ship adrift at sea I had plotted my course made my way for the horizon kept one eye on the compass an’ one eye on the sky I let my sails unfurl and billow fat in the wind I was sailing steady I was sailing true until [...]
~Jenuine Would you still love me… Would you love my scars– my discolored, gnarled, footprints of pain? Would you love my shadows– the ones that darken my eyes every now and then? Would you love the cluttered corners and messy closets of my soul? Would you love the insecurities that tag along with my confidence? [...]
~Angie Castro I miss that place where you can be Anybody and Nobody will care You look at people and can’t believe some of the shit they wear Damn lady, comb your kid’s hair! Strolling down the boardwalk napchunga in the air Grandma rollerblades in her bikini not caring that she ain’t skinny Meat-on-a-stick or [...]
