Lifting Belly High: Women's Poetry Since 1900 This mesh is devoted to gathering papers and abstracts for this international conference on women's poetry at Duquesne University, September 11-13, 2008.
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"A mouth full of suffering" by Elizabeth Rich

ThoughtMesh"A mouth full of suffering": Loss as Renewal in Carmen Bugan's Crossing the Carpathians    When Carmen Bugan fled Romania with her family to the United States, along with leaving behind her home, possessions, and friends, she also <continued>

"Let's say she didn't": Escape and Immobility in Kathryn Stripling Byer's "Blood Mountain" Sequence by Wendy Galgan

ThoughtMeshThe Appalachian women in Kathryn Stripling Byer's work are constrained in numerous ways: by geography, by lack of education, by abuse, by poverty. Each seeks to find her own way through the world, and while at times this means a woman is able leave <continued>

"Love should be put into action!" by Julie R. Enszer

ThoughtMeshElizabeth Bishop's emotional, erotic, and sexual life was focused on women. She had both long-term relationships with female partners and brief love affairs with women. Her sexual orientation was well known among friends and professional colleagues. <continued>

Chaos and Emergence: Dialogic Models of Intellectual Exchange in Alice Fulton's Poetics by Ana Marti-Subirana

ThoughtMeshAlice Fulton's poetry stands as one of the most representative examples of intellectual exchange between contemporary experimental poetics and modern science — as represented by quantum physics, chaos theory and complexity theory.  <continued>

Re-Reading "The Murder of Lidice" by mike chasar

ThoughtMeshThe Murder of Lidice—Millay's book-length poem dramatizing the destruction of a Czechoslovakian town by Nazi forces—was broadcast on national radio, printed in its entirety by Life magazine, issued by Harper in several paperback <continued>

The Feminist Anthology by Ellen Smith

ThoughtMeshIn 1973, Florence Howe and Ellen Bass published No More Masks!: An Anthology of Poems by Women. The anthology has come to signify, in recent literary history, the coalescence of second-wave feminism and mainstream American poetry. In this respect, <continued>

The P-P-P-P- Pink Guitar by Laurie McMillan

ThoughtMesh Rachel Blau DuPlessis's The Pink Guitar: Writing As Feminist Practice (1990) offers a creative alternative to traditional scholarship about women's poetry. Specifically, DuPlessis wrestles with the work of H. D., Beverly Dahlen, Susan Howe, and <continued>