by Anna Clark -USA- I was the only woman who worked on a ropes course during the summer I spent employed at a girls’ camp in Pennsylvania. Officially, my job was to strap kids into climbing harnesses and belay them…
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If There is Something to Desire:Interview with Russian Poet Vera Pavlova
by Anna Clark – USA – Why is the word yes so brief? It should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, interview, Language, poem, Poetry, Russia, translation, Vera Pavlova
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Telling the Stories of Chinese-America:Lisa See on Her New Novel, Shanghai Girls
by Anna Clark – USA – Meet Lisa See—if you aren’t already among her millions of fans around the world. Born in Paris and raised in Los Angeles, where she lives today, See is the New York Times bestselling author…
Society of the Incarcerated: Acknowledging the Voices of America’s Ever-Increasing Prison Population
by Anna Clark – USA – Who talks about prisoners these days? Certainly not the US presidential candidates or most others up for election in 2008, unless it’s in tangential “get tough on crime” rhetoric. In the media, quality coverage…
Tagged with: activism, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Politics, United States
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Author Cynthia Reeves Explores Relationships, Language and Dreams in Badlands
by Anna Clark – USA – There comes a time when a reader is starved for something new. A lot of tremendous fiction is being published these days, but most people don’t ever hear about it. In a time when…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Books, Cynthia Reeves, Interviews, Language, United States
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
A Review of ‘Made to Break”: Technology and Obsolescence in America
by Anna Clark USA Green consciousness is finally hitting that bastion of carbon emissions with a war-inducing appetite for oil: the American automobile. Between the nationwide Step It Up campaign of community activism and Al Gore’s Academy-Award winning documentary, An…
