Orphans and Strangers
A manuscript of nonfiction by Katherine McNamara
Category: Blog
The Heart, Drowning
I’m pleased to announce our publication The Heart Is A Drowning Object, an artists book, a collaboration between three women who with their art explore the workings of grief on a woman’s body in the face of possible loss, her descent into profound solitude, her unexpected emergence into joy.
The Kalifornsky Project
“Long time ago the Dena’ina did not have songs and stories. Then came the time …
Eyes Open To Praise
The poet Samuel Menash died a little more than three years ago, on August 26, 2011. I hadn’t seen him in a while. We were introduced at a writers’ party on the Upper West Side and discovered our mutual interest in Hubert Butler.
James L. Hicks, Emmett Till, Willie Reed
I don’t think we ought to forget him, or what happened in 1955 near Money, Mississippi, when two white men beat the 14-year old Emmett Till to death for verbally insulting (as they saw it) a white woman. A boy who found himself in the wrong neighborhood.
Opposed to the USA PATRIOT Act
In the June 2002 issue of Archipelago, I published an important speech by then-Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis), the only United States senator to have voted against the USA PATRIOT Act.
Living with Guns
A dozen years ago, the historic legal reading of the Second Amendment was sharply reinterpreted to allow nearly unlimited personal ownership of rifles and pistols, including those designed as man-killers.
A New Venture
This new medium was a cat’s-cradle of light-threads. Our words danced along those threads like dust motes.