Description: I. FINDING WORDS. Walker, Alice - Everyday Use . Eidus, Janice - Robins''s Nest . Silko, Leslie Marmon - Lullaby . Cofer, Judith Ortiz - Tales Told Under the Mango Tree . Lorde, Audre - Poetry is Not a Luxury . Norris, Kathleen - A Starfish in Mott . Marshall, Paule - From the Poets in the Kitchen . Medley, Cassandra - Waking Women . Silko, Leslie Marmon - untitled, Prologue to Ceremony . Cervantes, Lorna Dee - Refugee Ship . Chin, Marilyn - First Lessons . Cofer, Judith Ortiz - The Latin Deli . Harjo, Joy - For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak . Lorde, Audre - A Litany for Survival . Majaj, Lisa Suhair - Recognized Futures . Nye, Naomi Shihab - Adi os . Walker, Margaret - I Want to Write . Interview : Cofer, Judith Ortiz - The Art of Not Forgetting . II. FAMILY ALBUM. Glck, Tereze - Yellow Light . Hood, Mary - How Far She Went . Marshall, Paule - To Da-duh, In Memoriam . Walker, Pamela - Good Shabbos . Harjo, Joy - Family Album . Kingston, Maxine Hong - No Name Woman from Woman Warrior. Mora, Pat - A Walk with My Father . Sanchez, Sonya - Dear Mama . Wasserstein, Wendy - Tender Offer . Clifton, Lucille - Daughters . Dericotte, Toi - Touching, Not Touching: My Mother . Gallagher, Tess - Each Bird Walking. Hogan, Linda - Germinal , and Elk Song . Olds, Sharon - The Race , and Bathing the Newborn . Pratt, Minnie Bruce - Down the Little Cahaba . Ratner, Rochelle - Bentshen Light . Song, Cathy - Pic ture Bride . Voigt, Ellen Bryant - Visiting the Graves . Interview : Hogan, Linda - Imagining a Wider Community . III. HISTORIES. Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth - A Visit from Reverend Tileston . Niederman, Sharon - A Gift for Languages . Olsen, Tillie - O Yes . Morrison, Toni - The birth of Denver , excerpt from Beloved. Ozick, Cynthia - The Shawl . Ling, Amy - Whose America Is It? . Rich, Adrienne - History Stops for No One . Tapahonso, Luci - Preface: The Kaw River Rushes Westward . Momoko Iko - Gold Watch . Clifton, Lucille - them and us . Clark, Patricia - Bill of Sale D. Derricote, Toi - A Note on My Son''s Face . Dove, Rita - Crab Boil . Klepfitz, Irena - Warsaw, 1983: Umschlagplatz , and 1. Poland: My mother is walking down a road from Bashert . McElroy, Colleen J. - For My Children D. Mirikitani, Janice - Prisons of Silence . Mora, Pat - La Migra . Pastan, Linda - Family Tree . Rose, Wendy - I Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen . Thomas, Joyce Carol - Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea . Tapahonso, Luci - Sh Ak Dahjinteh: Remember the Things They Told Us . Interview : McElroy, Colleen J. - Against a Bondage of Color . IV. TRANSFORMATIONS. Paley, Grace - A Conversation With My Father . Stephens, Mariflo - Waltzing into Heaven . Winslow, Joyce Madelon - Born Again . Joy, Eileen - Emma . Wolf, Naomi - Hunger . Dinnerstein, Barbara Noreen - Bubbie, Mommy, Weight Watchers and Me . Raz, Hilda - Junk . Watanabe, Sylvia - Where People Know Me . Drexler, Rosalyn - 17C . Allen, Paula Gunn - Weed . Clark, Patricia - Betrayal . Byer, Kathryn Stripling - Dusk . Gallagher, Tess - Red Poppy . Gluck, Louise - The Undertaking . Harjo, Joy - For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Whose Spirit is Here and in the Dappled Stars . Hogan, Linda - Geodes . Keener, LuAnn - Hummingbirds . Levertov, Denise - A Tree Telling of Orpheus . Moss, Thylias - Tornados . Range, Melissa - Lot''s Wife . Interview : Watanabe, Sylvia - Living Among Strangers . V. WORKING LIFE. Kincaid, Jamaica - Poor Visitor . Naylor, Gloria - from Mama Day. Olsen, Tillie - I Stand Here Ironing . Dillard, Annie - from The Writing Life Goldberg, Nathalie - Walking Between the Raindrops . Kumin, Maxine - Menial Labor and the Muse Childress, Alice - Florence . Braid, Kate - ''Girl'' on the Crew . Blaumer, Laurie - The Invention of Imagination . Byer, Kathryn Stripling - Carpenter . Crooker, Barbara - The Last Woman in America to Wash Diapers . Hogan, Linda - What Has Happened to These Working Hands? . McCue, Frances - The Stenographer''s Breakfast . Shomer, Enid - The Tomato Packing Plant Line . Skeen, Anita - The English Teacher, in Mid- Life . Yamanaka, Interview : Lois-Ann - Turtles . Olsen, Tillie - Working Lives . VI. MANY LOVES. Cooper, J. California - The Magic Strength of Need . Houston, Pam - How to Talk to a Hunter . McDonald, Jeanne - Cousins . Springer, Lisa - Between Girls . Ferris, Lucy - Love and Learn . Lamott, Anne - from Operating Instructions. Willard, Nancy - The Friendship Tarot . Neipris, Janet - The Agreement . Allen, Paula Gunn - Eve the Fox . Angelou, Maya - Known to Eve and Me . Broumas, Olga - Lullaby . Gallagher, Tess - Sea Inside the Sea . Greenberg, Barbara L. - When I Think of My Happy Ending . Hacker, Marilyn - Self . Olds, Sharon - First Night . Peacock, Molly - How I Come to You . Rich, Adrienne - XIX from Twenty-One Love Poems Jordan, June - Poem Toward the Bottom Line . Song, Cathy - The White Porch . Willard, Nancy - Angels in Winter . Interview : Willard - Finding and Gathering and Dreaming . VII. SPIRIT AND SONG. Thomas, Joyce Carol - Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses . Watanabe, Sylvia - Talking with the Dead . Marcus, Adrianne - The Paincaller . Lyon, George Ella - Singing . Sarton, May - Silence is the food I was after... excerpt from Plant Dreaming Deep. Timpanelli, Gioia - There Are Times . Allen, Paula Gunn - A New Wrinkle from Grandmothersof the Light. Shange, Ntozake - Boogie Woogie Blues . Glck, Louise - Lullaby . Harjo, Joy - Healing Animal . Hogan, Linda - Drum . Kallet, Marilyn - Passover . Oliver, Mary - Mockingbirds . Piercy, Marge - Wellfleet Sabbath . Voigt, Ellen - Song and Story . Thomas, Joyce Carol - Church Poem . Tapahonso, Luci - The Motion of Songs Rising . Zimmerman, Elaine - To Essie Parrish . Interview : Harjo, Joy - In Love and War and Music . VIII. HAPPINESS. Colwin, Laurie - Another Marvelous Thing . Gomez, Jewelle - Don''t Explain . Houston, Pam - Blizzard and Blue Sky . Kincaid, Jamaica - Just Reading . Tapahonso, Luci - It Was a Special Treat . Cofer, Judith - More Room . Henley, Beth - Am I Blue? Friman, Alice - The Good News . Gallagher, Tess - Crepes Flambeau . Hampl, Patricia - The Moment . Inez, Colette - Good News! Nilda is Back . Levertov, Denise - O Taste and See . Nye, Naomi Shihab - So Much Happiness . Oliver, Mary - August . Ostriker, Alicia - Mother in Airport Parking Lot . Pastan, Linda - The Happiest Day . Sarton, May - The Work of Happiness . Thomas, Joyce Carol - Sisters . Walders, Davi - Reflections in Green Glass . Interview : Thomas, Joyce Carol - In a Long Line of Strong Women .

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