Featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art and conversation by members of the Let's Do It on the Road community Marty McConnell and Sholeh Wolpe, and many other fine artists:

Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, edited by Alix Olson with a foreword by Eve Ensler, brings together new and signature poems as well as personal essays by some of the performance poetry world's most exciting female voices.

Published by Seal Press, $15.95

Kelly's first CD "Infinity Released" has just been released. You can buy it today via PayPal on www.myspace.com/yellowgurl_poetry or www.yellowgurl.com/store. She also just appeared on the season six premiere of HBO's "Def Jam Poetry."

Adrienne Rich in the Guardian:
on the necessity of poetry

Legislators of the world
Commentary: In our dark times we need poetry more
than ever, argues Adrienne Rich

Saturday November 18, 2006
The Guardian

In "The Defence of Poetry" 1821, Shelley claimed that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". This has been taken to suggest that simply by virtue of composing verse, poets exert some exemplary moral power - in a vague unthreatening way. In fact, in his earlier political essay, "A Philosophic View of Reform," Shelley had written that "Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged" etc. The philosophers he was talking about were revolutionary-minded: Thomas Paine, William Godwin, Voltaire, Mary Wollstonecraft.

The International Museum of Women has launched Imagining Ourselves, a global conversation uniting young women around the world to create positive change. Be inspired by an amazing array of films, stories, songs, and photos from every corner of the globe. Join the conversation and check out the online exhibit, book, and series of global events at: www.imow.org.