Understanding Poetry Is More Straightforward Than You Think
“I can say that sooner or later poets figure out that there are no new ideas, only the same old ones — and that nobody who loves poetry reads it…
‘Too Fat, Too Slutty’ Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women
In the seventh century B.C., the poet Semonides of Amorgos wrote a catalog of unmanageable women. First, there are the women who resemble pigs, "resting in filth and growing fat."…
What, Prithee, Is a Poetess?
…Although studies reliably find that women read more than men, when a book is written for and consumed by women, or made popular by women, it is seen again as…