31 Ağustos 2020 Pazartesi

"They try so much But they can’t touch My inner mystery" - Maya Angelou


The Misfits, 1960


Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size   
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,   
The stride of my step,   
The curl of my lips.   
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,   
That’s me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,   
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.   
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.   
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,   
And the flash of my teeth,   
The swing in my waist,   
And the joy in my feet.   
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Men themselves have wondered   
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them,   
They say they still can’t see.   
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,   
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.   
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.   
When you see me passing,
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,   
The bend of my hair,   
the palm of my hand,   
The need for my care.   
’Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

23 Ağustos 2020 Pazar

"When I left, I had a face" —Magdalena Zurawski

Robert Frank The Americans 1958 - Oscar en Fotos


When I left, I had a face again, could open an account, drink coffee in the sun. On the street two women talked of money. I paid them no mind. —Magdalena Zurawski

18 Ağustos 2020 Salı

WEST BRANCH: NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

Robert Doisneau, Diagonal Steps, Paris  1953


Dear Students,
The thrice annual magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews published by the @StadlerCenter at @BucknellUniversity is now open for submissions.
You can send your work from now until April 1, 2021.

11 Ağustos 2020 Salı

DISCOVER AND JOIN: ART-LIT-POETRY @bubisanat



Dear Students,

Bubisanat is for those who are writing, reading, painting, feeling, and are involved in other kinds of arts. Please feel free to follow, analyze, and share your art with bubisanat:
twitter: @bubisanat

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8 Ağustos 2020 Cumartesi

"..write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been” John Keats-Bright Star

 

Bright Star Trailer (HD)


Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art”

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
         Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
         Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
         Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
         Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
         Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
         Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

4 Ağustos 2020 Salı

Announcement for my Seniors!


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We have openings in several exciting positions fitted to different skill sets and interests, from Nonfiction Editor and Editor-at-Large to Social Media Manager and Graphic Designer. Each and every team member—currently around eighty staffers across five continents—makes a world of difference in supporting initiatives like our daily blog, quarterly issue, fortnightly newsletter, book club, and more. 

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3 Ağustos 2020 Pazartesi

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” ― James Baldwin




Miguel Rothschild


Untitled

  Lord,
              when you send the rain
              think about it, please,
              a little?
      Do
              not get carried away
              by the sound of falling water,
              the marvelous light
              on the falling water.
          I
              am beneath that water.
              It falls with great force
              and the light
Blinds
              me to the light.

#HBD James Baldwin, born #OTD August 2, 1924. His essays, plays, interviews, and novels have galvanized a new generation of intellectuals and activists. #BLM #BlackLiterature


"Peer at the pupil of a flame." - Hang Kang

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