This book of poems and images is a collaboration between word artist Joan Kantor and fiber artist Linda Anderson.

Her Children: An artistic collaboration

Arts & Photography

Kantor, Joan

Other Media

WovenWord Press

This book is the story of a journey, over two thousand miles in a little RV on a quest for knowledge and understanding. While the experiences of violence and disenfranchisement against minority peoples weren't hers, Joan needed to know the details of what had brought about the historical continuation of racism since the earliest days of this country. She needed to witness the powerful thread connecting the present to the past, and, most essentially, to un-educate herself 'from a legacy of lies and omissions.' Her quest then was an immersion into re-education. As she explains, the depth and breadth of learning this powerful and often devastating information could not be without immense sadness.Joan's writing is open and honest. She urges all fellow citizens to seek out the truths of black history, both the progress and the pain, to dispel the myths, and to confront the suffering. She acknowledges that this is just a beginning toward the even greater journey of making amends for centuries of black oppression.

Filling in the Black: one woman's journey of re-education

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

When there is just the thinnest thread of hope, what is it that keeps someone holding on? In Holding It Together: Surviving a Legacy of Mental Illness, award-winning poet Joan Kantor tells the story of how she did just that and, in so doing, gives others suffering from mental illness a sense of validation and hope. Kantor, who struggled with severe clinical depression and anxiety before finding the right treatment, chronicles her journey in a collection that, while sad and at times even desperate, is full of honesty, passion, and dignity. Kantor's work is a celebration of survival. In Holding It Together, she shares the darkest of times in an effort to show others what it's like to suffer from severe mental illness. Her message will not only connect with others who’ve had similar experiences, but also educate family and friends, health care providers, educators, mental health support groups, and others. Joan Kantor promotes poetry in the community through readings, workshops, mentoring, and sharing her poetry through public television. She also performs at art museums and galleries in collaboration with visual artists and musicians. In Holding It Together, she uses the power of the written word to set herself free. In sharing her story, she not only hopes it will help others do the same but also that it will bring about greater understanding and respect for those who suffer from mental illness.

Holding It Together: Surviving a Legacy of Mental Illness

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

The Sensual Magic of the natural world comes alive in this collection of meditative nature poems. The colors, smells, texures, and shapes of the outdoors are cast in high relief. Forsythia explodes 'In wild popcorn profusion', dandelion puffs become a summer snow shower and vernal pools disappear with a 'snap of summer's scalding fingers'. Outdoor denizens will discover the familliar vividly rendered. Armchair nature lovers will find delight that tempts them outside, to a place of meditative reflection

The Magic of Moments: From Mindfulness to Reflection

Kantor, Joan B

This book tells the story of the growth of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion. This Communion of Communities is blooming across the United States as people of various denominations, mostly Roman Catholic, have a need to find a spiritual home that is fully Catholic, but also has an open table, and welcomes people who are on many paths. This is the well-told story of the journey of inclusion, where all are indeed welcome in the pews and at the table. Women are ordained in this communion, and marriage issues are no bar to being welcome. This is a joyful story of the work of many to make a home where everyone can feel at home.

A New Light: The Ecumenical Catholic Communion

Dean Jones

Angela Merici's Journey of the Heart; The Rule, The Way

Mary-Cabrini Durkin

This important book follows 30 groups of women who gather to celebrate the Eucharist in their own homes without an ordained presider. It is a contemporary chronicle of our lives as women, Catholic Christians and lovers of the sacrament of Eucharist. Listen to the voices of over 100 women speaking of their spiritual/sacramental journeys of faith as hopeful, fearful, joyful celebrators of Eucharist.

WomenEucharist

Religion & Spirituality

Dierks, Sheila Durkin

Christian Books & Bibles

The Legacy Continues...: Stories of Precious Blood Sisters Continuing the Legacy of Mother Maria Anna Brunner (CPPS Biographies Project, Vol. II)

Cordelia Gast

Eleanor McNally

Helen Weber

This book is a collaboration of Fr Don Farnan, essayist, Dolly Moore, poet, and Robin McGinnity Connelly, photographer. It flows from their work in two Catholic parishes in Kansas City which "twinned." One in a suburban parish, and one is in the urban core. The essays follow the flow of the Catholic liturgical year, beginning in Advent.

This Bold Prayer

Farnan, Don

This is a portfolio collection of eight beautiful  collector's edition prints.  The artwork is Meinrad's vision of the  ecstatic union heralded in the Song of Songs.  It is reproduced here  with quotes from Nicholas Ayo's translation of this sensuous book of  Scripture.

Sacred Marriage: Images from the Song of Songs

Craighead, Meinrad

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