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FEMINIST ART MOVEMENT: Key Artists Who Reshaped the Art World [1960s-2026]

October 17, 2026
Introduction: When Women Demanded to Be Seen In 1989, the Guerrilla Girls plastered New York City with a provocative poster asking: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” Their resea…

Genre-defying Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 9, 2026
The 76-year-old poet, translator and essayist is renowned for her “bold and inventive” approach to blending poetry, prose and everything in between, leading to what the Swedish Academy calls “new for…

The Darkness by Linda Metzner

October 7, 2026
As a composer and poet, I’m interested in cultural perceptions and assumptions that influence beliefs.  In monotheistic religions as well in some types of more recent spiritual thought, the assumpti…

TOWARD THE CLEARING

From the foreground we see the clearing as it emerges in the distance through the canvas, a lifetime away. Beyond in mist the future is alluring. Rippling water and stepping stones show the way, smooth, strategic at start, but the climb slumbers in the distance.  READ MORE

ON ART, AND FINDING A WAY HOME

I think art of any kind has to do with finding one’s way home, that is, back to oneself perhaps for the first time. Art connects heart and mind, to find the story I’m searching for.  READ MORE

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Published by Main Street Rag, Charlotte, North Carolina 2014  Price: &17.95   

Jean’s work has previously been published in It’s All Relative – Tales from the Tree,  in The Great Smokies Review, in Speckled Trout Review and in These Trees by Ruthie Rosauer,