Nora CurryMar 26, 20222 min readPoem of the Week: The Stranger in Her Feminine SignIraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail has published numerous volumes of work in both Arabic and English. Much of her work grapples with war...
Nora CurryMar 12, 20224 min readWomen's History MonthMarch brings Women's History Month around once again. If these annual months of recognition happen over and over again, how can we make...
Nora CurryMar 8, 20222 min readWomen's Prize for Fiction: The LonglistHappy International Women's Day! Every year, the Women's Prize Trust, based in the UK, awards the Women's Prize for Fiction to an...
Nora CurryMar 30, 20211 min readPoem of the Week: You'reSylvia Plath's poetry is often hard to read—if not to interpret, then to stomach. The poet often articulated her suicidal and despondent...
Nora CurryMar 23, 20212 min readPoem of the Week: Worm MoonSomething about the coming of spring has always felt to me incredibly well-suited to poetry, as though it serves as an enchantment,...
Nora CurryMar 9, 20211 min readPoem of the Week: Blessing the BoatsThere is something of a feeling of simple smallness when looking at a Lucille Clifton poem like "blessing the boats," with its lower case...
Nora CurryMar 6, 20214 min readWomen's History MonthThis March marks forty years since the first official celebration of Women's History Week in 1981. While it is, and should be, impossible...
Nora CurryMar 2, 20211 min readPoem of the Week: What My Child Learns of the SeaAs we transition from Black History Month to Women's History Month, the voice of Audre Lorde seems the perfect complement to the moment....