"The poet cannot escape his or her obligation to bear witness to the times." —Maxine Kumin |
“The Wound,” a poem that came out of that experience was featured with an audio recording and an interview on the PBS Newshour’s poetry page. A short movie about Long Love: New and Selected Poems, Salmon Press, 2018. https://youtu.be/W_5r5Y8fjkE My short (under 2-minute) movie "Love" based on one poem, selected by Cinema Poetica for the Ashland Film Festival, 2017. Oregon Cultural Heritge Commission: The 100 Oregon Books The Oregon State Library: 150 Oregon Books for the Sesquicentennial Oregon ArtBeat, Poetry in Motion, Oregon Public Broadcasting click here Soapstone: Celebrating Women Writers
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Here is a brief description: I was hardly an obvious candidate to become an ardent, committed radical feminist in the turbulence of the Second Wave. I had embarked on a work life at BBC Television that was predictable for a young woman of my background, but that path had been interrupted by the untimely death of my parents, and my flight to a job in Spain. Back in London in 1972, I stumbled by chance into the very heart of the Women’s Liberation Movement, which rapidly ushered me into a consciousness raising group, and thus changed my life overnight. Woven throughout is the slow unfolding of delayed grief over my parents’ drowning when I was nineteen. A few of the memoirs in Virginia's Apple: “Wild Patience” is the story of my friendship with Adrienne Rich, and how she helped set me on the path I took as a writer. It was written for this collection. “Veronica” is the story of my fluke connection with Veronica Lucan whose husband Lord Lucan attempted murder her in 1974, which remains one of London’s major crime obsessions. It was a “notable essay” in The Best American Essays 2014. “Poetry and Prejudice” was published in The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the West, Teresa Jordan and James Hepworth, eds., W.W. Norton. it was selected by Susan Orlean to win the Andres Berger Award from Northwest Writers.
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