Travels

Marking Sacred Time: An interview with poet Eliza Grizwold

Boston Review

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/npm14-heather-hewett-eliza-griswold-afghanistan-women-landay/

In 2012 and 2013, poet and journalist Eliza Griswold traveled to Afghanistan to collect and translate landays, an oral form of poetry popular among Pashtun women, in collaboration with Seamus Murphy, a photographer who has worked in the country for more than thirty years. Griswold’s translations appear alongside Murphy’s photographs in I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Topics: Travels, Writing

The Valley of the Kings

A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley

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I peered at the itinerary clipped onto my handlebars and read the name: “Abbaye de Pontleroy.” In front of us, the sign read “Fermé.” “Strike two,” my husband said, getting back onto his bike.

Topics: Travels

Dog Days and Dark Nights

Ducts: The Webzine of Personal Stories

http://ducts.sundresspublications.com/06_04/html/essays/hewett.htm

Five years ago, my newly married husband and I moved to Senegal, West Africa, where losing electricity was as common as the goats that wandered the arid Sahel. The first time the power went out, it was late afternoon.

Topics: Travels