Author Event: Dena Taylor, Editor
When a Woman Tells the Truth
Wednesday, September 18
4 p.m.
$7 admission
Join us for conversation with Dena Taylor, the editor of When a Woman Tells the Truth, ananthology of poetry, prose, and art by more than eighty women over eighty.
“Glimpses of rich lives, lived long, with roots in the past but still growing towards the future: when older women tell their truth, it looks like this.” —Laurie R. KingStories, poems, essays, memoirs from women about life after 80—a time for rest, reflection, doing and learning new things, for sadness, grief, adventure, romance, and activism. It’s all here in these pages, told with honesty, wisdom, and humor.“We hear a lot about aging these days—but rarely from the people who know it best. When a Woman Tells the Truth brings together the poetry, prose, and art of more than eighty women over eighty. Here are poets, professors, Zen buddhists, theater directors, French teachers, jewelry artists, union organizers, midwives, hospice workers, and more. These compelling dispatches from the light of eighty and beyond are by turns loving, funny, heartbreaking, sly, tender, and angry. Through it all, the light of great and small joys shines through, along with the fierce clarity of seeing the present, each day, for what it is.” —Kathryn Chetkovich, author of Friendly FireDena Taylor is the author of Exclamation Points: Collected Poems, the co-author, with her daughter Becky Taylor, of Tell Me the Number before Infinity: The story of a girl with a quirky mind, an eccentric family, and oh yes, a disability (both published by Many Names Press), and the author, editor, or co-editor of several books on women’s issues. A graduate of Rutgers School of Social Work, she is retired from careers in social work and education.
September 18-Dena Taylor, Editor, When a Woman Tells the Truth
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