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Sallie's posts tagged ‘Adrienne Rich’

Aloneness

May 12th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Writing 1 Comment

Image of the Painting The Blessed Damozel

We live in a Noah’s Ark society where the expectation is that everyone, but especially women, will be paired.

In Women, Writing Adrienne Rich Single Blessedness

Another Silent Spring

April 24th, 2022 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico Leave a Comment

Photo of Rachel Carson

Would it have made a difference if a man had written it, a well-known scientist? I wondered that this morning as I walked through our parched and silent woods here   

In New Mexico Wildfires Los Alamos Adrienne Rich

Liberation

September 15th, 2019 by Sallie Bingham in Women Leave a Comment

Photo of feminist Mary Daly holding an axe

It’s hard now to believe the extraordinary sense of liberation I as well as many other women felt during the early 1970s

In Women Phyllis Chesler Adrienne Rich Andrea Dworkin Mary Daly

Kate Millett: A Beginning

May 13th, 2018 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Writing 1 Comment

Kate Mllett, author

If our coming together seldom includes our work, and is largely social, our influence on our communities is limited.

In Women, Writing Rosemary Daniell Adrienne Rich Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture Bitch magazine Kate Millett

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

December 13th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Writing, Art 5 Comments

Fish in Winter

It took a revolution in critical standards for the way women work to be given equal status with the way traditionally men have worked.

In Writing, Art Adrienne Rich

Books That Changed My Life

February 4th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Writing Leave a Comment

Flannery O’Connor

I have special respect for teachers because I finally had to admit, a few years ago, that I can’t do it… at least not directly.

In Writing Tecolote Jonathan Swift William Faulkner Flannery O’Connor Sherman Alexie Willa Cather Santa Fe St. Johns College Adrienne Rich

Ten Favorites: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

December 30th, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 1 Comment

Colette

So often, when I’m teaching in these uncelebrated venues to women who sometimes seem lost to my word, I feel fruitless and frustrated; yet any one of the many women I have taught might, also, has written WOW next to startling lines in a poem they would never have read without my class.

In Writing North Carolina The Norton Anthology of Poetry New Mexico Gwendolyn Brooks Kentucky Audre Lord Kentucky Women Writers Conference Mabel Dodge Luhan Adrienne Rich Colette Lexington Taos Women Writers’ Conference Bingham Military School Asheville

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning: Adrienne Rich and Colette

October 16th, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 1 Comment

Colette

So often, when I’m teaching in these uncelebrated venues to women who sometimes seem lost to my word, I feel fruitless and frustrated; yet any one of the many women I have taught might, also, has written WOW next to startling lines in a poem they would never have read without my class.

In Writing Taos Lexington Women Writers’ Conference Bingham Military School Asheville North Carolina The Norton Anthology of Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks New Mexico Audre Lord Kentucky Mabel Dodge Luhan Kentucky Women Writers Conference Colette Adrienne Rich

And Again, Adrienne

April 3rd, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Writing Leave a Comment

Adrienne Rich

How reassuring it is to find a second appraisal, to my mind more sensitive and compelling than the first, in The New York Times (March 31).

In Writing The New York Times Adrienne Rich David Orr Harry Crews

Adrienne Rich Is Dead

March 30th, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 1 Comment

Adrienne Rich

In my heart, she has a special place because of some curious connections: she was at Radcliffe a few years before me, in the wretched fifties, and came out of that experience with formal training, an early marriage, and three sons.

In Writing RIP The New York Times Adrienne Rich Radcliffe W.W. Norton

 

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Taken By The Shawnee

Taken By The Shawnee

July 6th, 2025
Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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