Archive - Cita Press Bulletin

"someone will remember us...even in another time"

On knowing of each others' existences: Audre Lorde and Angelina Weld Grimké; Barbara Smith on the continuum; Sappho, Bryher, Elsa Gidlow.

Jun 30 •

May 2025

"...you might arrive at yourself."

On legacy: marking 'firsts' vs. mapping relationships; Edith (Sui Sin Far) & Winnifred (Onoto Watanna) Eaton; Miné Okubo, Diana Chang.

May 30 •

April 2025

"To clear the drifts of spring"

Five poems from 100 years ago; Angelina Weld Grimké, Mina Loy, Anne Spencer, Alfonsina Storni & Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Apr 30 •

March 2025

"...these visible and invisible things..."

Wrapping up Women's History Month by exploring online archives, making Malinda Russell's lemon cake, & celebrating people "whose names we do not easily…

Mar 31 •

February 2025

"Your world is as big as you make it."

On the S Street Salon, a 1920s creative community for Black women writers; Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Louise E. Jefferson…

Feb 28 •

"...let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."

On the enduring, essential power of A Room of One's Own; the women who shaped Woolf; "repairing" the past via the public domain?; and more.

Feb 1 •

January 2025

"So much of any year is flammable... so little is a stone."

Closing out a year with favorite reads of 2024 from Cita staff, contributors, partners, & readers.

Jan 1 •

November 2024

“nos sembraron miedo, nos crecieron alas…”/“they sowed fear in us, we grew wings...”

On our new Spanish-language edition of Women Resisting Violence; Ella Cara Deloria and Nellie Two Bear Gates; & more!

Nov 30, 2024 •

October 2024

"...planted in a strange earth."

On Zitkála-Šá, one of the most influential writers and activists of the twentieth century & author of Cita's new open access collection

Oct 31, 2024 •

"...truth is trouble."

On banned books, censorship, and literary truths; Kate Chopin and Paula Modersohn-Becker enter the Cita Canon; more.

Oct 1, 2024 •

August 2024

"Give me your hand" / "Dame la mano"

Women in Translation: Gabriela Mistral by way of Langston Hughes, Ursula K. Le Guin, & Samuel Beckett; Soledad Acosta de Samper, Clarice Lispector, …

Aug 30, 2024 •

"...there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

On Mad pride via Madwomen in the Attic, Ten Days in a Mad-House & Virginia Woolf; The Snake Pit, Camille Claudel, & more.

Aug 1, 2024 •

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