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The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment.Aphrodite's Daughtersintroduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women-Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery-who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké's invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery's frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett's risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research,Aphrodite's Daughtersdraws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery's published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.

Popular discourse tends to put technology and its communication forms -- e-mail, text, IM, etc. -- as an either-or proposition, [Crispin Thurlow] said in a telephone interview. This past summer when Thurlow's sister married, her bridesmaids presented her a copy of all her e-mails, text messages and Instant Messages from the time she met Mr. Right, throughout their courtship and until their wedding day. The answer is a matter of perception. Thurlow's students look at e-mail as a form of conversation. Thurlow sees it as a form of letter writing.

Many others, including [Jerry Bockoven] and Nebraska native and author Joy Carol, say the very fact that the 2001 terrorist attacks were not an act of war or an attack on a military base makes it so much bigger and traumatic than Pearl Harbor. Said Bockoven, \"Songs - art of any kind - help us connect with each other at an emotional level.\" But he cautions that performers should not take it too far - inspiring hatred or more fear. He refers to Rwanda, where songs about the strife suddenly switched to violent, hateful lyrics that talked about cutting off the head of the enemy. \"As much as we do everything we can to protect ourselves, at night when everyone is in bed and all the lights are out and it is you and your thoughts, you know you cannot protect yourself 100 percent. The plane you're on could be the plane, somebody could push the button on the (nuclear) bomb, the bomb could be in your car. The media is assaulting us all the time, and it has made its way into us thinking about it all the time,\" Bockoven said.

Jill Gerston reviews the book \"Breaking the Ties That Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman, 1915-1930,\" edited by Maureen Honey.

The dialogue continues in living rooms and kitchens, in coffee klatches and book club gatherings across the country. Not since \"Red Badge of Courage\" in junior high have so many people read the same books at the same time.\"When someone is using air time to promote good reading, that's really exciting,\" said Linda Hillegass, co- owner of Lee Booksellers. \"It's Oprah's power.\" [Marcia Verley], who works in a bookstore, has purchased and read five of the six titles; she's still got the hardback \"Deep End of the Ocean\" to go. So far, Wally Lamb's \"She's Come Undone\" is her favorite. Marcia Verley, an avid reader, has devoured five of the six titles announced so far on \"[Oprah Winfrey]'s Book Club;\" Wally Lamb's \"She's Come Undone\" was her favorite. color photo of Marcia Verley holding four books on a television, by IAN DOREMUS/ Lincoln Journal Star

It's too late for the immature, egotistical male writer in Grace Sartwell Mason's 1918 Good Housekeeping story \"The Lotus Eater\" to win back [Mary Synon], a strong-willed, struggling Greenwich Village artist whom he abandons when she's packed off to a sanitarium to recover from malnutrition and exhaustion. Instead, he is replaced in the heroine's affections by a \"plain American businessman\" who treats her with respect and adoration and who has \"a feeling for Mary's talent that was next door to reverence.\" Despite the trite dialogue, flowery prose and soap opera plots, these stories are remarkable for their affirmation of a woman's independence, intelligence, self-expression, solidarity with other women and right to live life on her own terms. Ms. [Maureen Honey], an associate professor of English and women's studies at the University of Nebraska who is also the author of \"Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender and Propaganda During World War II,\" has chosen her selections with precisely these qualities in mind. As she remarks in her introduction, the \"New Woman success story,\" which was one of the \"major story formulas\" of the period, has been neglected by scholars, who have tended to focus on the domestic preoccupations of women's magazines. But Ms. Honey argues for \"a more complex portrait of the 1920's than has been drawn in the past,\" and presents these stories as evidence.

54-2651 PS310 2015-37353 CIP Honey, Maureen. Aphrodite's daughters: three modernist poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Rutgers, 2016. 269p bibl index ISBN 9780813570792 cloth, $90.00; ISBN 9780813570785 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780813572796 ebook, $27.95

Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. Rutgers Univ. 2001. c.544p. ed. by Venetria K. Patton & Maureen Honey. illus. ISBN 0-8135-2929-8. $60; pap. ISBN 0-8135-2930-1. $28.

Photo. Honey [Honey Lizares] fired Chaparral to the Sunrise Division title. Jeff With conference MVP Jamie Ditto leading the way, it will be hard for the Warriors to not meet any challenge mounted in the tournament. Ditto pitched all but a few innings this season in dominant fashion and was the Warriors top batter, hitting .450. Lizares shut down Chaparral opponents during the latter half of the season, while [Amy Clatterbuck] led the team in hitting.