Poetry isn’t just something pretty on the page. It’s survival. It’s resistance. It’s a lifeline stretched across centuries, connecting women who dared to speak when the world told them to be silent. Long before microphones, book deals, or viral quotes, women poets were putting truth to paper in the only ways they could, sometimes in […]
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Weedmonkey Lisa V. Proulx Genre: Historical Memoir, Appalachia Blurb Weedmonkey is not a fairytale but a glimpse of life during the Great Depression. It tells the true story of Virgie, a young girl growing up in Appalachia. Her life is marked by hardship, resilience, and self-reliance as she faces abuse, starvation, foster care, and the
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There are moments in life that change you forever. For me, one of those moments happened in the poetry section of my local library back in 1970 something. It was a hot summer day, and I was wearing cutoff jean shorts and a tube top, sitting cross legged on the rough industrial carpet that always
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There was one way in and one way out of town and that was the railroad. They liked to say there was one way in and one way out of the mines too but I didn’t like thinking on that much. My daddy had worked for the mines my whole life and I didn’t want
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Ever heard a panther scream? Sounds like a woman screaming. Maybe that’s where the story of banshees comes from. Maybe it’s the wind howling through the cracks in the frame that make that howling noise. The wolf panting at the door. Let me in or I’ll huff and puff and blow your house down. Down or
