Mother Self Poetry

In her 1997 work, The Arts of the Possible, Adreinne Rich explores the complex political issues, social policies, social justices in society at the time. Here, she also talks about the role of writers, poets, language, imagination – in a society, and how writers seek to explore human relationships. I’m inspired by her words, “The impulse…

In saying ‘there is no single story of motherhood’, I borrow from Chimamanda Adichie’s 2009 Ted Talk on the danger of the single story. Adichie says, “the single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they aren’t true, but they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” This is…