Movies Monday: Janis Little Girl Blue
By Categories: Movies Monday

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Click Here to Read:  Janis: Little Girl Blue: Singing For Her Feelings To Be Heard By Sandra E. Cohen, Ph.D.

Click Here to Read: In ‘Janis: Little Girl Blue,’ Exploring Joplin’s Demons by Stephen Holden in The New York Times on November 26, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Janis: Little Girl Blue review – eye-opening account of Joplin’s brief, fierce life: he singer emerges from Amy Berg’s documentary as a raw and uncompromising talent, who became ruled by applause and addicted to heroin by Peter Bradshaw on the Guardian website on February 5, 2016. Continue reading Movies Monday: Janis Little Girl Blue

Last of China’s Lotus Feet Women
By Categories: China

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Click Here to Read: Last of China’s Lotus Feet Women by Allison Meier on The HyperAllergic website on March 23, 2015.

Jo Farrell, portrait of Zhang Yun Ying, age 77 (2005) (all photographs courtesy the artist)

Click Here to Read: Women with Bound Feet in China: Cessation of Bound Feet during the Communist Era: Excerpts from When I was a girl in China, stories collected by Joseph Rupp writtenn by Li Xiu-ying on the University of Virginia website.

POETRY MONDAY: June 6, 2016
By Categories: Poetry

We have news this month about a number of our featured poets – some of it very sad and some quite happy indeed.  The dates in parentheses after their names show when they appeared on these pages.  If you look them up in our archives, you will be able to see their photos, learn a bit more about them, and read or re-read a few of their poems.

First, the sad news. Two more are no longer with us.  Joan Peronto (October 2009), died of heart failure last month, still young at 85.  Michelle Gillett (November 2012), only 68 years old,  also died recently, and very suddenly, of cancer. These two poets and friends from Berkshire County, Massachusetts, who contributed strongly to our poetry lives here and elsewhere, will be greatly missed. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: June 6, 2016

Art, war and social revolution—Part 1
By Categories: General News

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Click Here to Read:  Art, war and social revolution—Part 1 By David Walsh On The World Socialist Web Site in May 2016.

We are posting below the first part of an edited version of a presentation given at San Diego State University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in April and May 2016.

Click Here to Read: A talk given in San Diego, Berkeley and Ann Arbor: Art, war and social revolution—Part 2 By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on June 1, 2016.