Alice Walker

Alice Walker
Novelist and Poet

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Works
Image of Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
Interviews
Heart Wall What To Do With An Arrow In Your Heart

Writer Alice Walker has been thinking about how anger co-exists with peace. She spoke with Shannon Henry Kleiber about her new book of poems, “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart,” and how she works on healing herself when she’s been hurt by others.
Alice Walker Alice Walker on 'Disturbing The Peace'

Alice Walker recommends Richard Yates' novel following an advertising executive whose seemingly successful life quietly fractures under the pressure of mundanity, alcoholism, anger, and recklessness. She says she was drawn to the book because Yates' world was so different from hers.
Alice Walker Hope Rises. It Always Does.

Hope is a complicated, even slippery, word. One that demands a poet’s voice. Here’s Alice Walker, reading her poem “Hope is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear.”
Shows
tree among warnings Poetry in a Troubled Time
Hope Hope: Where Does It Come From?
Is Anger Useful?
Websites
alicewalkersgarden.com