Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd
Update 2023-04 : New photo by Vashchelle Andre of Alice and Ede By Alice Walker Edited by Valerie Boyd Publisher Simon and Schuster Alice Walker encourages you to purchase her books from…
Standing in the Ring of Life: Pub day April 12th 2022
Parados en el cuadrilátero de la vida: Día de publicación: abril 12 de 2022 Dream Team: Valerie and Evelyn and Ali Gathering Blossoms Under Fire / Equipo Ideal: Valerie y Evelyn y Ali…
Introducing Alice Walker’s New Children’s Book:
Sweet People Are EverywhereBy Alice Walker Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated book for children ages 4–8 (and readers of all ages) featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, locates the “sweet…
New Poems, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART
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Book: The Temple of My Familiar
OVER FOUR MONTHS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some…
THE Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir
©2011 by Alice Walker (words); ©2011 by Tamara Staples (art). I love this chicken because she is so in her body. If you look into her eyes you are right to know she…
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
Acclaimed author, poet, feminist, activist, and, at the age of just thirty-nine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, Alice Walker is one of our most extraordinary living writers. From her discussions of…
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
“[These] poems grow as naturally on the page as grass and flowers, yet never try to conceal a terrain of early graves, emotional land mines, and levies of sorrow.” – Gloria Steinem,…
Why War Is Never a Good Idea
“Though War is Old / It has not / Become wise,” Walker writes in this eloquent poem. Paintings in neon-bright colors celebrate forest diversity and urban communities across the globe. Then each community,…
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
“It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume.” In We Are the Ones We Have…
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
“You/ are/ the sister/ The big/ Sister/ As hero,” Alice Walker writes near the beginning of her sixth volume of poems: “The one who sees/ The one who listens/ The one who guides/…
Book: The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart
“These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated,…
Sent By Earth
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001) Alice Walker uses political commentary, poetry, and hard-won wisdom to look at what…
Book: Anything We Love Can Be Saved
“Walker’s commitment to activism-in its myriad cultural, political and spiritual forms-shines forth convincingly in this wide-ranging collection of personal essays, remarks, letters, speeches and statements, many previously published. Tracing her advocacy to an…
Warrior Marks
Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world’s women. Part memoir, part travelogue, part photographic journey, this nonfiction follow-up…
