Bioography & Education
Mariahadessa Ekere
Tallie
is a poet, writer, educator, New Yorker and
world-wanderer. Her
poetry and fiction have been published in several journals in the
United States, France and South Africa.
Listen
to my poetry
(Thanks to Jeroen
and Mark
for recording)
Get my new booklet: Mother Nature
Mothertongue --- Musings on pregnancy and motherhood
“If
the woman artist has been trained to believe that the activities of
motherhood are trivial, tangential to main issues of life, irrelevant
to the great themes of literature, she should untrain
herself.
The training is misogynist, it protects and perpetuates systems of
thought and feeling which prefer violence and death to love and birth,
and it is a lie.” -Alicia Ostriker.
Part 1. Because
of and not despite Part
2. 8
and a
half weeks left Part 3. How?
Part 4. A
Love Supreme / Don't Attempt This at Home?
Part 5. Parenting’s
Pendulum Vibe
Part
6. The
unintentional earth mama
Part 7. Did
Sylvia Plath have homegirls? Part
8. Dirt Off Your Journal: my 39
word manifesto Part 9. Visibility
Must reads
and links
April 2009: A Recession Love Story
March 2009: A
Love Note For
us all
January 2009: My
Last
Inner Chains are Falling
November 2008: The
first family
February
2007: Loud Life
April
2006: Where
The Action Is
September 2005: Don't just hope for the best
- The Travel Bug Gaths
Original, Zimbabwe
August 2005: Pieces of a Dream
@ ChickenBones - I
spent eight months in Namibia...
December 2004: Knowing:
Reflections on the journey to Rundu
September 2004: Rewind
Selecta: A response to the "where-the-hell-have-you-been" letter
May 2004: And
We Complain About the Shape of Our Children
May 2003: Peace
or It’s So Cool to be Anti-American
March 2003: The Travel Bug Spain
January 2003: The Travel Bug Tunisia
July 2002: What
me...Afraid!!???"
April 2002: It's
somewhere in my astrological chart that I will occasionally...
February 2002: So
I guess you thought I'd dropped out of cyberspace, huh? ...
September 2001: My
work now is to not be immobilized...
Featured poets? It could be you...
Niama Leslie Williams, USA - Jawanza Phoenix, USA - Bianca Steward, USA - Lynne Thompson, USA - Leonor Maria Irarrázaval Correa, Chile - Joel Rivera, USA - Patricia Foster, UK - Iriel Sayeed, USA - Carolyn A. Butts, USA - Sarah O'Gorman, The Netherlands - Yahminah Orr, USA - Babs Gons, The Netherlands
Read my poetry
You can read:
Links
These
are folks who I think bring loveliness to the
planet. Read my full desciption of all links here.
Or try your luck and click one below...
Contact & Credits
For inquiries, booking information, to be considered for featured poet or to be added to Ekere's e-nnouncement list email: click here (Photo credits: Bruce Stansbury and Neek)
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