Cherry Potts, Writer

Author: Cherry Potts

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 22nd February

    Today’s birthday girl is Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) also known as Nancy Boyd when writing prose, and who called herself ‘Vincent’. Vincent was an American poet and playwright in 1923 she became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, her first poems were published when…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party February 21st

    I’m a day late, sorry, but here is the Birthday news for February 21st. Now: if I say Prison Reformer, the most likely image to come to your mind is Elizabeth Fry. Ms Fry was an excellent woman and to be admired, but put her to one side for a minute and consider (fanfare) Lilian…

  • LGBT History Month: Crofton Park Eco-Community Library

    This is about as local as you can get for me, the library is a twelve-minute walk from my house, so I was very pleased to be invited to read. A small audience but a generous one, they bought more books than the other LGBT history month events put together, and most of us ended…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 20th February

    Here we go: A Woman of Mystery…don’t know when her birthday was, don’t know who she is, beyond she wrote a book Either is Love which explores the life of a woman who first has a lesbian relationship and then a heterosexual one. Published in 1937. I have a vague recollection of having read this…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 19th February

    I am so behind with this project, I’ve been too busy performing and preparing, and editing video and so forth. However, she says, mopping sweat from brow, dusting flour form hands and straightening the metaphorical party dress; yes so, sorry, the 19th was Carson McCullers birthday. I love Carson McCullers books, they are magnificently gloomy,…

  • Sense, Sentences and Sensibility – building poems from scratch

    I’m running a poetry workshop on Friday.  I keep quiet about poetry most of the time, but the opportunity came up (through Spread the Word), and I’ve been flexing my poetry muscles at the Poetry Cafe’s Poetry@3, Poetry at Mr Lawrence’s and the Towersey Festival recently, so here I go! I’ll be exploring how poems…

  • Out (and About) in South London

    I will be on Out in South London on Resonance 104.4 FM this evening sometime between 6.30 and 7.30, if you feel like tuning in. I’ll be talking to Rosie Wilby about LGBT History month and … stuff.

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 18th February

    Raise your glasses in honour of Audre Lorde, 1934-1992 who described herself as black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet. One of the women who taught me it was ok to be angry, in fact, more than ok, essential. My sexuality is part and parcel of who I am, and my poetry comes from the intersection of…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 17th February

    Today we bake a cake for Dorothy Canfield Fisher February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958. Dorothy was a great friend of fellow writer, Willa Cather, they wrote great quantities of letters, which in the main we cannot read as Cather’s will forbade the publication of, or quotation from her letters. (Apparently the way to…

  • LGBT History month: reading at North Kensington Library – video

    This week I did two readings from Mosaic of Air for LGBT History Month, the first at North Kensington Library. (note about the videos: my website randomly allocates different formats to video, not all of which work with internet explorer: they all work with Mozilla Firefox so try that of you can’t see them!) Here…