White Ink

Edited by poet Rishma Dunlop, White Ink is a unique collection of poems on mothers and motherhoodd, by some of the finest poets of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Unsentimental, unflinching, and edgy, White Ink registers the social and political changes, as well as the imaginative pulse, of recent history through the figure of the mohter: a powerful, recurring, and central symbol in contemporary poetry. Spanning multiple cultures, ethnicities, genders, and languages, White Ink is a landmark anthology. Poets include Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Joy Harjo, Sharon Olds, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier, Allen Ginsberg, Irving Layton, Priscila Uppal, Sandra Gilbert, Grace Paley, Samuel Menashe, Marilyn Hacker, Steven Heighton, C.D. Wright, Cherrie Moraga, Natasha Trethewey, Rita Dove, Adrienne Rich, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nicole Brossard, Marie Ponsot, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Fady Joudah, Daphne Marlatt, Molly Peacock, and many others.

Rishma Dunlop is the winner of the 2003 Emily Dickinson Award. She is the author of three books of poetry: Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005), Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004) and The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002). Rishma is also co-editor of Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press, 2004), and her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines. She is a professor of literature and education at York University in Toronto, Canada.