The history of Women, Part 2 [the link for Part 1 follows the two paragraphs]
This March, we are paying tribute to Women’s History Month by devoting the month to the work of Irena Praitis. Last week we brought you the first of three prose poems wherein Irena contemplates the life of her grandmother, Ona Kartanas, who, in Irena’s words, “is still going strong at 97 surviving two world wars and living on three different continents.”
Irena Praitis is a professor of literature and creative writing at California State University, Fullerton. She has published three collections of verse: Touch (Finishing Line Press, 2004), Branches (D-N Publishing, 2007), and Straws and Shadows (Moon Tide Press, 2012). A biographical collection of prose vignettes, One Woman’s Life, was published by Diversion Press in 2010. A collection of translations, compiled with co-translator Kerry Shawn Keys, presents the work of Lithuanian poet Sonata Paliulytė (Calder Wood Press, 2011). Praitis was a Fulbright Scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her individual poems, reviews, essays, and translations have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Rhino, Cold Mountain Review, and Interculturidad y Traduccion, among other journals.
The History of Women, Part 1
Women's Voices for Change
Stephanie Doty
Women's Issues Matter
March 11, 2014
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