“It is the woman who has to speak, and it’s not only the woman Anaïs who has to speak, but I who have to speak for many women.” So says the Cuban-French essayist and novelist in this 1966 reading from the first volume of “The Diary of Anais Nin,” presented in commemoration of Women’s History Month by poet Steven Reigns, Chair of the Anaïs Nin Foundation (produced by Brian DeShazor).

Part One of Outliving Michael, a new book by Los Angeles-based poet Steven Reigns, a memorial memoir chronicling Steven’s profound friendship with Michael Church from 1994 until Michael died of AIDS in 2000. The book is captured in BRIAN DeSHAZOR’s original sound collage, using Steven’s reading of poems from Outliving Michael juxtaposed with NewsWrap reports from This Way Out’s archives. The soundtrack is drawn from some of Steven and Michael’s favorite music (Part One)

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