Women’s History Month Care Package for Monday, March 1, 2021

Poetry: The Sound of Their Names by Ellen BassFor the Women of the 19th AmendmentPraise their grit and gospel, their glisteningbrains, their minds on fire. Neurons, numbering the stars.Praise their bones. Their spines and skulls,the axis, the atlas: I will not and I shall. Read More Song In My Head: Girl On Fire by Alicia Keys …

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THANKSREADING 2019: Bustin’ Up the Boys Club

It’s day four of Thanksreading. The halfway point. How have I gotten this far without talking about comic books? I’m off my game. Let’s get to it. The comic book industry has been a male-dominated field from the very beginning. So much so that by the time I started collecting them in the early 1990s, …

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