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09/04/2016
Buenos dias a todos! El Poetry and Music Slam se acerca! Estan todos cordialmente invitados! Habra presentacion de poesia y musica, y habra un ambiente de creacion artistica para que todos podamos compartir y disfrutar! La actividad sera el 28 de abril de 2016 a las 5pm en el Teatro Monseñor Vicente Murga en la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico, recinto de Ponce. La entrada es totalmente gratis!
I really love this poem. I would appreciate it if you left your thoughts in the comment section below.
From the House of Yemanjá
BY AUDRE LORDE
My mother had two faces and a frying pot
where she cooked up her daughters
into girls
before she fixed our dinner.
My mother had two faces
and a broken pot
where she hid out a perfect daughter
who was not me
I am the sun and moon and forever hungry
for her eyes.
I bear two women upon my back
one dark and rich and hidden
in the ivory hungers of the other
mother
pale as a witch
yet steady and familiar
brings me bread and terror
in my sleep
her breasts are huge exciting anchors
in the midnight storm.
All this has been
before
in my mother's bed
time has no sense
I have no brothers
and my sisters are cruel.
Mother I need
mother I need
mother I need your blackness now
as the august earth needs rain.
I am
the sun and moon and forever hungry
the sharpened edge
where day and night shall meet
and not be
one.
A todo al que pueda interesar, hoy habra reunion del Club de lectura en McManus 2013 a las 10:30am!~ Si les interesa intentar algo nuevo y le encanta la literarura, estan bienvenidos con las manos abiertas!
Good night everyone! This semester's first Book Club meeting will be this next tuesday, September 22, 2015! It will be in Mcmanus 103 at 10:30am, and everyone who is interested is invited! Thank you!
Good night everybody! The English students association is having a get together tomorrow at 10:30am on the Coayuco classroom for Valentine's Day! Member's of the book club and people who are interested are invited! Thanks to you all and hope you all have a wonderful night and a beautiful Valentine's Day! :D
I acknowledge that it's a bit late, but this is a more unofficial announcement (the official one has already been sent to the members). Tomorrow at 10:30, on McManus 103, there will be a Book Club reunion concerning three short works. The Raid by John Steinbeck, In Flander's Fields by John McCrae, and The man with the beautiful eyes by Charles Bukowsky. If any person who's liked this page is interested in becoming a member, or attending to be a part of the dynamic, please do. You're all welcomed. Thank you and good night!
So I may have found another favorite poet; Anne Sexton. Here is one of her poems that really stayed with me.
The Abortion by Anne Sexton
Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
Just as the earth puckered its mouth,
each bud puffing out from its knot,
I changed my shoes, and then drove south.
Up past the Blue Mountains, where
Pennsylvania humps on endlessly,
wearing, like a crayoned cat, its green hair,
its roads sunken in like a gray washboard;
where, in truth, the ground cracks evilly,
a dark socket from which the coal has poured,
Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
the grass as bristly and stout as chives,
and me wondering when the ground would break,
and me wondering how anything fragile survives;
up in Pennsylvania, I met a little man,
not Rumpelstiltskin, at all, at all...
he took the fullness that love began.
Returning north, even the sky grew thin
like a high window looking nowhere.
The road was as flat as a sheet of tin.
Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward...this baby that I bleed.
Esta semana sera la ultima para donar alimentos enlatados y utensilios de limpieza para ayudar al Albergue la Providencia en Ponce. Las cajas estan en el centro de Consejeria en el Centro de Estudiantes Manuel Gonzalez Pato, y en el departamento de Ciencias Sociales del Colegio de Artes y Humanidades. Cualquier cosa tambien me pueden contactar para donaciones, mi e-mail es [email protected]. Muchas gracias a todos aquellos que han donado hasta ahora, y a todos los que donaran. Espero que esten bien y que pasen una buena noche.
Hey guys! Remember tomorrow we have a book club meeting at 10:30 am in Mc 103. There will be pizza and refreshments. See you there!
Guys and girls, girls and guys, I need a favor from all of you. I need you all to tell me your names (just in case they don't appear on your facebook), and if you're going to be on the English Association as a whole or the Book Club only. Please specify and thank you.
Quote of the Day. An interesting one from one of my favorite novels:
“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died."
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Quote of the Day:
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
- Oscar Wilde