Breaking Silence: A Literary Journey with Women who Spoke Truth to Power with Elayne Clift

Breaking Silence: A Literary Journey with Women who Spoke Truth to Power with Elayne Clift at Putney Public Library
Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm
Award-winning writer Elayne Clift offers a presentation on women writers who were courageous enough to tell truth about their lives at Putney Public Library on Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Poet Muriel Rukeyser famously asked more than 50 years ago. Her answer? “The world would split apart.”
This presentation in honor of International Women’s Day offers a historical review of women writers who told the truth about their lives and created social change in important ways through courageous writing in various genres. Their insightful works changed women’s lives in the home, the marketplace, academia, institutions, and government. It’s an opportunity to learn from selected women writers who affected social history and progress in ways that affect us all through truth telling diaries, autobiographies, poems, short stories and essays that helped shape a more enlightened world with respect to gender, race, class, and caste. Please join us for a journey into Gender, Literature, and “good trouble!”