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PUBLISHED: Feb.28.2009

Work Is Love Made Visible

Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the author is an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveling and a feminist intellectual with a formidable critical vocabulary. She writes in a language of solidarity, affirmation, and love. The story of the daughter who left home, traveled the country, and returned to do her family proud is...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.13.2009

Tongue Tied Woman

from the Foreward by Justin Spring I liked Tongue Tied Woman. I liked the title, I liked the idea, I liked the poems. Using a repeated theme or refrain in a collection is a difficult trick to pull off. The hook has to be rich enough, deep enough, to continue to attract our attention over a good length of time. Jeanetta Calhoun's repeated theme and refrain, "tongue...

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Feb.21.2009 - 2:49 pm

Beautifully Worthless

Before I get started with my first blog entry, I'd like to thank the Red Room for letting me have an author's space in their beautifully designed, intuitive web home. Now, on with...

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Mar.02.2009 - 12:16 pm

In response to: Beautifully Worthless

But not the first queer anthology about being working-class

I want to add that as far as I know, while Wendell's is the first anthology of working-class queer literature, it's not...

Feb.23.2009 - 11:32 am

In response to: Smart Women and Publishing

Thank you

You have done it again--that is, you have said what my heart knows, just as you do in your poetry & fiction....

Feb.22.2009 - 1:16 pm

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Working Class Writing

Yes, Julia, you're correct about that fabulous group of scholars and this post was not meant to disparage their great...

Feb.21.2009 - 11:38 pm

In response to: Beautifully Worthless

Working class writing

Thanks for commenting on my blog, Marian. I have read some books by Denise Chavez, but have not yet read Face of an...

About Jeanetta

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a native Oklahoman returned home after twenty years to study for her PhD in American Literature and to grow good tomatoes. Her poetry collection, Work Is Love Made Visible, was published by West End Press (in distribution partnership...

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