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Blood Moon Aria by Wendy Kagan
Part praise song, part heroine’s journey, Blood Moon Aria sings of mothers and daughters, eros and the changing body, birth and death, and the blood cycle and its passing. These are songs that need to be sung full-throated in a culture that invisibilizes women after the childbearing years. Aria means “lioness” in Greek, and the poems are by turns elegiac and fierce, tender and defiant, moving between realms from the domestic to the celestial and mythic.
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Bookmaking at Red Bird
What makes Red Bird so special is every book is folded, scored, stitched, and “birded” by hand. Sometimes, it is a bookmaker working in her home in the quiet hours of the evening and sometimes it is a group of bookmakers who have come together around our table at our “nest” on a Sunday afternoon. The following video produced by Heather Quinn and narrated by editor Steve Merino is the making of Chiwenite Onyekwelu’s debut collection “Exiled.”
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