Happy Birthday, Dr. Anna J. Cooper

This is my annual birthday post in honor of DC champion for Black women’s education and rights, Dr. Anna J. Cooper, who is too often forgotten in our…

Happy Birthday, Dr. Anna J. Cooper

Selma’s Review on Masticadores USA | Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

Selma’s Review on Masticadores USA

 ON AUGUST 10, 2024

(Created on Canva by Dawn Pisturino)

Once again, I want to thank my friend and fellow poet, Selma Martin, for her glowing review of my debut poetry book, Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987 – 2023. She kindly submitted it to Barbara Harris Leonhard, editor of Masticadores USA, who published it today. Thank you, Barbara! Selma voluntarily stepped up to the plate to give me pointers and help promote the book. I can never thank her enough. Please check out her beautifully written debut poetry collection, In the Shadow of Rainbows (2023). And if you love to laugh and enjoy quirky poetry, Nolcha Fox and Barbara Harris Leonhard collaborated to bring out a new book of poetry, Too Much Fun to Be Legal (2024). These two poets are the Dynamic Duo of poetry collaborations.

“In this definitive collection selected from published poems that have already received accolades, poet Dawn Pisturino presents a personal selection of her best work from three decades.

“It warmed my heart to see that the author dedicates the book of brilliantly crafted verses to her daughter, Ariel: the collection is undergirded by a familiar thread of tenderness that soon endears one to this author.

“In this 130+ page collection of 60 poems, there’s something for everyone in the various styles and themes: twisted limericks to make you laugh, traditional sonnets to make you think, love poems, dark poems, children’s poems, nature poems, and experimental poems. . .”

Source: Selma’s Review on Masticadores USA | Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

किताब के पन्ने / Book’s Pages  – Kaushal Kishore

 

मेरी फितरत में नहीं छुपाना, नहीं यह मेरा आब,

तुम्हारे सामने खोलकर रख दिया था मेरी किताब…

लेकिन तुमने ही जल्दी से पलट दिए पन्ने मनमाने,

सिर्फ जिल्द देखकर, अन्दर की बात बिना जाने…

📄📄📄📄📄📄

Concealment’s not my way, it’s true, 

laid my book wide open before you…

But you rushed thru pages with speed,

Judging me only by the cover, indeed…

.

–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: किताब के पन्ने / Book’s Pages  – Kaushal Kishore

Republicans who think ‘Tampon Tim’ is an insult are actually Walz’s best publicists | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

…The actual legislation, I should be clear, does not explicitly state that tampons should be put in men’s bathrooms. It says that free menstrual products “must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades four to 12”. But the very idea that a policy might be inclusive and help trans students seems to drive Republicans up the wall.

The “Tampon Tim” attacks aren’t just born out of a hatred of trans people, they also reflect the Republicans’ disdain for women. There are memes with Walz’s head on a tampon and showing him menstruating into his jeans – all of which are meant to convey the idea that Walz is feminine. Which, to many men on the right, seems to be the most insulting thing you can call a man. Last week, for example, the Fox News host Jesse Watters wondered why any self-respecting man would vote for a woman. “[T]o be a man and then vote for a woman just because she’s a woman is either childish – that person has mommy issues – or they are just trying to be accepted by other women,” Watters said. “I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.” Ah yes, that is exactly what the scientists say.

While Republicans may be having fun with their silly nickname, I’m not sure it’s going to help them in the polls. If anything, it will help Walz. As Hillary Clinton posted on Twitter: “How nice of the Trump camp to help publicize Gov. Tim Walz’s compassionate and common-sense policy of providing free menstrual products to students in Minnesota public schools…”

Source: Republicans who think ‘Tampon Tim’ is an insult are actually Walz’s best publicists | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian