"I am not like them; I flew to a wilderness..."
Reading Soledad Acosta de Samper's Dolores, through the cover; Montserrat Ordóñez & Dinah Mulock Craik; translating literature & lives; more...
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“I endeavor to flee from myself, but always, always thought pursues me…”
On Dolores by Soledad Acosta de Samper (our newest title); online explorations to continue celebrating Pride; announcing Cita Book Friends; more news!
"What flower worth the pain?"
The Emergency Was Curiosity author Christie George on "fan nonfiction" & collective approaches to creativity; Toyo Suyemoto & Arundhati Roy.
"But who can guess, or even surmise / The countless things she served with her eyes?"
Three short poems from the public domain, & their poets: Lady Mary Chudleigh, Luisa Pérez de Zambrana, & Gladys May Casely-Hayford (Aquah Laluah).
"I don’t write to hide from the world."
On the legacies of Kathleen Collins; love and literary recovery; and women who tell women's history: Anna Julia Cooper, Gerda Lerner, & Emma Willard.
"A battle greater, grander far / Is for the present age;"
A Q&A with Eunice Toh of #DigBlk on transcription, community, and public memory; the extraordinary Frances E.W. Harper, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Harriet Powers.
"Look for a lovely thing and you will find it,"
On visual art and the public domain; artists Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Karimeh Abbud, and Frances Hodgkins; resources, news, & events from Cita and beyond.
"Everything remembers and speaks to those who will listen."
An annual list of the best books we read in 2025, from Cita Press contributors, staff, collaborators, and readers.
"I may not all your meaning understand, / But I have touched your soul in shadow-land."
Mapping Indigenous poetry in North America today (via Joy Harjo) and yesterday; poems by E. Pauline Johnson and Jane Johnstone Schoolcraft; the avant-garde visual art of Mary Sully.
"And thro' the darkness saw strange faces grin..."
Exploring feminist horror lit through stories by Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, & DeReath Byrd Busey; a spooky poem by Christina Rossetti; news!