Award Winning Spoken Word Poet Hosts Workshop and Performs at Pit Stop Saturday - Patch.com

Award Winning Spoken Word Poet Hosts Workshop and Performs at Pit Stop Saturday Patch.com When Ceez Liive, born Cynthia Keteku, took home second place in the 2009 New York Knicks Poetry Slam Program, she was 18 years old and things have not been the same since. In the past three years, she has made a name for herself on the slam poetry ... and more »

Conversation: Poet Natalie Diaz - PBS (blog)

Conversation: Poet Natalie Diaz PBS (blog) While she was in college, she also began to write poetry. Her first collection of poems, "When My Brother Was an Aztec," has just been published. Many of Diaz's poems deal with the harsh realities of reservation life: poverty, teen pregnancy and ...

Motherhood: Ecstatic, Frenzied, and Exhausted - Huffington Post (blog)

Motherhood: Ecstatic, Frenzied, and Exhausted Huffington Post (blog) ... days early on a home pregnancy test and watched in amazement as a faint second line got brighter and brighter and brighter. Positive. God, Allah, Buddha, Fate, Nature, or plain old luck was sending me a child. Things couldn't have been more poetic.

Dealing with heartbreak - Cambridge News

Cambridge News

Dealing with heartbreak Cambridge News A unique service for bereaved parents, including those who have lost babies in pregnancy took place in Cambridge at the weekend. Here, organiser Janet Sackman talks about her own, very personal journey through the trauma of miscarriage.

Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns defends her campaign to boycott Mother's Day - msnbc.com (blog)

msnbc.com (blog)

Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns defends her campaign to boycott Mother's Day msnbc.com (blog) Turlington Burns' Every Mother Counts organization, which raises awareness about the 360000 women who die each year from pregnancy or childbirth-related problems, wants fellow moms to spend the holiday in silence – no phone calls, no gifts, ... and more »