Moonstone Presents:
- This event has passed.
Virtual Poetry Reading: National Be Nasty Day & International Women’s Day
March 21, 2021 @ 2:00 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09
Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 Passcode: 704102
March 8th is National Be Nasty Day and International Women’s Day.
It reminded me of an event we did 2017 when “Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse” edited by Grace Bauer & Julie Kane came out. It is an excellent anthology, and the event was lots of fun, as women responded to Donald Trump’s comment that Hillary Clinton was a Nasty Woman.
“Like beauty, “nasty” is in the eye of the beholder… The call for poems made it clear that we were looking for broader—and more varied—perspectives on women’s experience. Women poets have always been resisting, reclaiming, and reinventing—sometimes subtly, sometimes more overtly. To my mind, any refusal to allow others to define what it means to be a woman is a kind of resistance.” – Grace Bauer
Poets respond in this spirit, in the second year of the pandemic.
Contributors in anthology include:
Emily Batemon
Aja Beech
Wendy Blaxland
Eve Chilali
Minna Duchovnay
Suzanne Eaton
RUNETT EBO
Sophia Falco
Christine Ferrari Strickland
Hanoch guy
Rachel Haas-Gutin
Dolores Hayden
Emiliann Lorenzen
Jerri Ketcham McDermott
Emily Rose Miller
Liz Minette
Claire Nolan
Isabella Piacentino
Kate Potter
Susanna Rich
George Schaefer
Jennifer Schneider
Leanne Shirtliffe
Solana Warner
Kelley White
Linda Whittenberg
Samantha Wright
