Nupur Maskara's Blog

We go to the movies to escape, but also in the hope of learning how to cope better with life. Barbie does both. It pushes the boundaries of film making, with its plurality. Willing...

Attitude: Vision, Change, Learning, Fear & Boldness (The Sh*t They Never Taught You) is a keeper. Co-authors Adam Ashton and Adam Jones have a memorable style, and keep you riveted with punchy anecdotes and life...

Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet, so we read her works in translation. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. Her poems are often ironic and philosophical. She uses metaphors which seem...

Audrey Molly is an Irish contemporary woman poet based in Australia. My friend recommended her to me for her innovative use of footnotes, which she weaves as part of her poem. Although I couldn’t...

I actually met Linda Pastan on Zoom! We were part of the Eastern Shore Writers Association. I didn’t know she’s famous. She had had a poem published in the New Yorker, but was having...

Judith Wright was an Australian woman poet who passed away in 2000, at the age of 85. A passionate environmentalist, her campaign to save The Great Barrier Reef, her support of the Aborigines and...

Luisa Villani is an American contemporary woman poet. Influenced by the ancient Mayans, here are two of her poems. Watching The Mayan Women I hang the window inside outlike a shirt drying in a...

I first heard of Gluck when she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020. Here are two poems by her. The first is a revisioning of the Sisyphean myth. The Mountain My students...

Natasha Trethewey is a biracial American contemporary woman poet. She has written many poems on the drudgery of housework, that poisoned the existence of African-Americans historically. Here’s one – Domestic Work, 1937  All week...

Anne Sexton was a contemporary of Sylvia Plath’s and their critiquing of each other’s work spurred both of them to write better. Here’s a poem she wrote on Plath’s suicide – Sylvia’s Death for...