• An Open Letter to Nawal El- Saadawi

    Alice Walker and Nawal El -Saadawi, Amsterdam, 1990s An Open Letter to Nawal El- Saadawi ©2011 by Alice Walker Dear Nawal El- Saadawi, Remember when we met in Amsterdam many years ago?  I…

  • Jasmine

    Jasmine May It Be Said of Me © 2009 by Alice Walker May it be said of me That when I saw Your mud hut I remembered My shack. That when I tasted…

  • Alice and Kwamboka

    Kwamboka Okari and Alice Walker in Berkeley 2008 ©2011 by Alice Walker This is Alice and Kwamboka Sitting peaceful on a sofa: the green king of blues communing with Lucille just behind us!…

  • This is a story of how love works

    This is a story of how love works. ©2011 by Alice Walker This is the house for orphaned young girls; the house that love built. These are two of the beautiful girls who…

  • Poem: When you see water

    When you see water ©2011 by Alice Walker When you see water in a streamyou say: oh, this is streamwater; When you see water in the riveryou say: oh, this is waterof the…

  • Word reaches us

    Word reaches us that you are sleeping, sleeping. Dismayed we have turned to the sea. We encounter among others walking there a sense of what we have lost: the broad expanse of humanity’s…

  • The answer is: Live happily!

    The Answer is: Live Happily! Copyright © 2010 by Alice Walker To all my relations who have known this suffering. And for Miles Davis, just because. Happy New Year. When you thought me…

  • Torture

     A Merry Christmas Day poem about trees for Bradley Manning Torture © 1986/2010 by Alice Walker When they torture your motherplant a treeWhen they torture your fatherplant a treeWhen they torture your brotherand…

  • The Inner Listener

    ©2009 by Alice Walker Sounds True which offers so many amazing and helpful works, has recently produced an audio set of Howard Thurman’s talks.  Thurman was a mystic and theologian who influenced many…

  • I Will Keep Broken Things

    for my country ©2010 by Alice Walker I will keep Broken Things: The big clay Pot With raised Iguanas Chasing Their Tails; Two Of their Wise Heads Sheared Off; I will keep Broken…

  • Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle

    Thoughts on the Russell Tribunal re: International Corporate Complicity in the Destruction of the People of Palestine Convening in London November 20-23rd 2010 Copyright©2010 by Alice Walker   November 19, 2010 In many…

  • Alice Walker Offers Advice on Writing

    August 31, 2010   Writer’s Digest Conversation with Jessica Strawser   Decades before her groundbreaking novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker was already a distinctive voice in American and world literature. Decades later,…