Untying the Knot: Divorce and Women’s Rights in Islam
Many religions have their own guidelines regarding marriage and what it entails. This information, found in religious texts and documents, tends to cover a...
The “Global Spiral” of Caspian Environmental Politics
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that the Caspian Basin holds more than 48 billion barrels of oil and more than 292 trillion cubic...
Good advice: Rilke’s Gift to the World
So all I see is young artists and they ask me how they can publish their work, how they can become better writers? It...
Assia Wevill
Journal entry In these early days Assia Wevill needs proof. Will a village life be enough for us? I am planting...
Ingrid Jonker’s Black Butterflies
Let us tell ghost stories. Jonker is a ghost of her former self, but she is still in the land of the living —...
Optimism for the Elite
Poetry always smelled like spring dirt to me. In the distance, the future imagined like clockwork. Chronic pain is always both an illusion and...
Anne Sexton Renaissance woman
When you are a manic-depressive, you are married to the unction of your fears. Up and down your moods will go....
Ecoregions as Geopolitical Subregions
According to WWF (World Wildlife Foundation), an ecoregion is a “large unit of land or water containing a geographically distinct assemblage of species, natural...
A Brave New World
There is power and justice in everything that we read until we give our perspective the permission to see it as thus. ...
Lost in Translation
African writers’ stories have often been fragmented in Africa since Nelson Mandela was released from prison. They have often not been told, put into...