Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd
By Alice Walker Edited by Valerie Boyd Publisher Simon and Schuster Alice Walker encourages you to purchase her books from locally owned bookstores. (Map of independent bookstores) About The Book From National…
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…
WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU
En Español The name “Lucy,” which appears in the following poem, was given by paleoanthropologists to the fossilized skeleton of the most ancient, recognizably human ancestral figure ever found. A female being…
What do I get for getting old? A Picture Story for the Curious!
From the new book of poems: THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW JOY: Turning Madness Into Flowers Spring 2013 Bicycle dress guard by Simeli Ananda What Do I Get For Getting Old? A Picture Story…
Comment on New Book: Howard Zinn Speaks Collected Speeches 1963 to 2009
“The first time I heard Howard Zinn speak I was a student in the deep South, and amazed that anyone could stay alive long enough to say such things. He was completely fearless,…
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…
Overcoming Speechlessness
In 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working…
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,…
