January 17, 2020 at 6:34 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Fridays, poetry, The New Yorker
Excerpt from The Green Lake (in The New Yorker, 9 December 2019):
What work will you leave behind
I ask the tailor
Who has sewn the button upon my shoe
I can walk again
Yesterday everything felt so hopeless
Now I have the energy to sit in the sun
All of the damned seething baths
Now I am finally on my own
Dorothea Lasky is the author of six books of poetry and prose, including, most recently, Animal
December 30, 2019 at 9:16 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Links, Lists, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: flash fiction, Just published, Literary Magazines, Mondays, poetry, short pieces, TransGenre
Flash by Alex Behr, César Valdebenito, Kim Magowan, Tommy Dean, Matthew Greene, Anna Oberg, Savannah Slone, Marianne Villanueva, Mary Senter, Corey Miller, Connor Goodwin, Jude Vivienne Dexter, Francine Witte * Short Stories by Stefani Nellen, Marilee Dahlman, Theo Greenblatt (Trigger warning: sexual assault) * Poetry by Alice Hall, Nathan Lipps, Jeremy Rain * Creative Nonfiction by Keygan Sands and Kharys Ateh Laue * Visual Narrative by Trevor Alixopulos * Art by Nance Van Winckel * Emerging Artists and much, much more!
from A History of Anyway
Intermedia
Sad lad of the far north, you with no means and no true lassie, with no way home and no home anyway
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 22, 2019 at 5:20 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino poetry, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: advice, poetry, Saturday, The Philippines, websites
If You Go to Bed Hungry
(an excerpt)
If you go to bed hungry, your soul will get up and steal cold rice from the pot.
Stop playing with fire before the moon rises or you’ll pee in your sleep.
Sweeping the floor after dark sweeps wealth and good fortune out the door.
Fork dropped: a gentleman will visit. Spoon: a bashful lady.
The poem in its entirety can be found on the Poetry Foundation site.
About Angela: She is the author of Blood Orange (Willow Books, 2013). Her second collection, What Happens is Neither, is forthcoming in 2021 from Four Way Books.
Perhaps that is why good things never last long with self: she is always sweeping the floor just before she goes to bed!
Stay tuned.
December 18, 2019 at 7:14 pm (Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: poetry, The New Yorker
Excerpt from Scylla and Charybdis
I like when the choices are both ugly —
the rock and the hard place. Odysseus chose
Scylla and I, too, would have opted for
a terrestrial evil, the sea vortex probably
concealing some subterranean meat with its beauty.
Soon you and I will exist in different time zones.
Oh, this poem is lovely! Read it today in a back issue of The New Yorker (19 August 2019), just pulled from the bottom of a huge pile of stuff.
Stay tuned.
December 8, 2019 at 2:41 pm (Artists and Writers, Places, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: Latin American writers, poetry, The New Yorker, translation
Excerpt from SIXTY
by Fabian Severo (translated from the Portuñol by Laura Cesarco Eglin and Jesse Lee Kercheval
We are from the border
like the sun that is born there
behind the eucalyptus
shines all day
above the river
and goes to sleep there
beyond the Rodrigues’s house.
Fabian Severo is an Uruguayan poet. His collection, Night in the North, translated from the Portuñol by Laura Cesarco Eglin and Jesse Lee Kercheval, will be published in the spring.
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November 18, 2019 at 1:21 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Niece, Places, Relatives, short story collections, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: England, Events, Mondays, Oxford, poetry, Prague, Readings
It is easy for self to come up with pictures for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #72 this week: WAITING.
Less than a week ago, she and two other friends waited at Oxford University’s Examination Schools for the start of the inaugural lecture by newly appointed Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald, who is the first woman ever to be appointed to that prestigious position.
Self took the second picture while visiting London’s Canary Wharf. Evern since she saw the handmaidens, she’s been wondering what/ who they’re waiting for.
The third picture is of self in Prague, where she’d gone in May with her niece. The other woman in the picture is a Filipina; we started chatting.
Prague, May 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
August 27, 2019 at 6:20 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Links)
Tags: Garden, inspiration, poetry, summer, The New Yorker
Self loves C. L. Odell’s poem in the 24 June 2019 New Yorker.
Geraniums, Front Porch, August 2019
PEONY
An excerpt
So let me have this now
before the blossoms
take my absence
from the yard
and I am again only one-sided,
a living thing responsible
to live, finding myself in tall grass,
whispering back.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 22, 2019 at 11:15 pm (destinations, Filipino poetry, Filipino Writers, Philippine History, Recommended)
Tags: Philippine History, poetry, The Philippines
Like the Molave was a long poem in eight parts, published 1940:
The little brown brother opens his eyes to the glaring sound of
the Star Spangled;
dreams to the grand tune of the American dream;
is proud to be part of the sweeping American magnitude;
strains his neck upon the rising skyscraper of American
ideals, and on it hinges faith, hope, aspiration;
sings the American epic of souls conceived in liberty;
quivers with longing brotherhood of men created equal;
envisions great visions of the land across the sea where
dwell his strong brothers.
July 22, 2019 at 4:58 pm (Filipino poetry, Filipino Writers, Personal Bookshelf, Philippine History)
Tags: environmental literature, grief, poetry, The Philippines
Excerpt from Like the Molave
by Rafael Zulueta y da Costa (1915 – 1990)
Note: The molave is a Philippine hardwood, resistant to fire, used frequently in the construction of Philippine churches and dwellings, now extinct in the Islands.
VI
My American friend says:
show me one great Filipino speech to make your people
listen through the centuries;
show me one great Filipino song rich with the soul of your
seven thousand isles;
show me one great Filipino dream, forever sword and
shield —
speech eloquent and simple as our My Country ‘Tis of Thee;
dream age-enduring, sacred as our American democracy!
Friend, our silences are long but we also have our speeches.
Father, with my whole heart, I forgive all.
Believe me, your reverence.
July 18, 2019 at 5:28 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Personal Bookshelf, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Calyx, causes, poetry
The kind of activism that made Calyx great is here:
Excerpt From Children Are Color-Blind
by Genny Lim
I never painted myself yellow
The way I colored the sun when I was five.
The way I colored whitefolks with the “flesh” crayola.
Yellow pages adults thumbed through for restaurants,
taxis, airlines, plumbers . . .
The color of summer squash, corn, eggyolk, innocence and tapioca.
My children knew before they were taught.
They envisioned rainbows emblazoned over alleyways;
Clouds floating over hilltops like a freedom shroud.
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