#c: eavan

[nancycattermole]

who : @valeriaeavan

where: the library

Eavan was an unlikely friend but Nancy's dearest, they had bonded a few years ago after being paired together in a charms lesson. Eavan had been her rock for the past year, helping Nancy get back into the swing of things after her pregnancy with Nigel. It had took the pair a full year to get her caught up, but now they were in the full swing of things.

Still though, Nancy enjoyed their weekly meetings in the library. Most of the time, it was a chance to have a catch up, discuss what they had heard through the week. Nancy always did love a good chinwag. "Well, Miss Burke." Nancy greeted, setting her books down on the table. Scraping her hair back into a ponytail before sitting down. "What has been going on in your universe?"

[offtotheratraces]

A few drinks and random alcoholic concoctions down, Peter was rightly. Upon first hearing that the halloween celebrations was a Hogsmeade fair, Peter grunted at the idea of not having a full blown party at the castle. But actually, he was pleasantly surprised by the carnival. It had the perfect combination of drinks, mixed with mingling and food.

Peter was standing at the side having a smoke when he noticed a passerby stumble into Eavan and spill an entire drink down her dress. He hadn't even caught onto the fact that he was staring by the time Eavan looked up at him with a sharp glare. A drink in one hand and his lit cigarette in the other, Peter raised his arms in faux defence. "Don't bite, I'm just an innocent detective" A smirk on his features, "Although, you could add it to your costume? A beer stained..." Peter paused for a moment, "fairy..angel thing?

when: 28 October 1978 where: Hogsmeade Hallows Eve Fair who: Eavan and OPEN! @noxstarters

Eavan was not having a good time at the Hallows Eve fair. She hadn’t expected to, really, but she’d known she’d have to attend anyway; it was too big a social event to pass on. So here she was, at a pointless carnival, in a carefully curated costume that not enough people fully appreciated, surrounded by drunkards, and cold. Still, she acted like she was enjoying herself, perusing the fair, sampling drinks, chatting with acquaintances. Practice makes perfect, afterall, and she’d been playing her part for quite a while now. 

It wasn’t until someone stumbled into her, and spilled most of their beer down her dress in the process, that Eavan’s irritation slipped out. An Irish phrase that her mother probably would have preferred she hadn’t learned from her father escaped Eavan’s lips in a hiss as she grabbed a nearby napkin to dab at her chest. When she felt someone’s eyes on her, she didn’t bother to disguise her irritation. She looked up with a sharp glare. “If you’re expecting a show, I promise you couldn’t afford the entry fee.”

[lucaswood]

When: The Yule Ball Where: Outside Who: @valeriaeavan

Lucas was having a fun time at the ball, he really was, he just needed to step out. He's never had the greatest social battery, especially in comparison to some of the other people in Gryffindor (seriously that house *loved* to party, it drove him mad sometimes. He would be fine to go back inside and rejoin the festivities in a moment, he just needed air and some peace and quiet. It's a beautiful night, too, really. There was a light snowfall but the sky was clear enough that the moon and stars were both bright enough to illuminate the grounds, or, maybe that was the light shinning out the windows from the party *inside*. Not that it mattered, really. It was almost a shame that the ball wasn't being held *outside*. There wouldn't have been such a need for the decorating committee because the scenery was perfect, in his opinion. He's so enthralled with watching as the snow falls, he almost doesn't hear as Eavan steps outside and approaches him. Almost. An easy smile falls on his face when he looks at her. She looks gorgeous in her outfit, really, he has no idea why shes out here alone, the idea of her not having a date by her side was incomprehensible, in his opinion. "Hey, you okay?" he asked.

[literarymood]

On pomegranates...

Pauline Albanese, The Closed Door // William Bouguereau, Girl with a pomegranate, 1875 // Oscar Wilde, La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente // Oscar Wilde, The Birthday of the Infanta // D. H. Lawrence, Pomegranate // Still Life with Pomegranates, Gustave Courbet, c. 1871-1872 // Eavan Boland, The Pomegranate // Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a journal entry, c. 1921 // Louise Glück, Pomegranate // Louise Glück, Pomegranate // Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine, 1874 // Flora Snowden, Ode to the Pomegranate.

[honeyblockm]

ONE SINGLE STATIC FRAME

A c!GeorgeNotFound webweave, based on this Yuker comic.

Yuker | @celestiahly | DSMP world download (trimmed) - @blockgamepirate | how indifferent you are to the coral - consumptive_sphinx | The Window Song - The Mountain Goats | All We Got Was Autumn. All We Got Was Winter. - Tawanda Mulalu | A Softer World 1243: listen while you can - Emily Horne and Joey Comeau | dawning crow | DSMP Transcripts 1 2 | The Iliad - Emily Wilson | @neongnosis | screenshotsofdespair 1 2 3 | The Final Quackity Lore - Quackity | GameFAQs | Flint and Steel - Minecraft Wiki | Otzi Awake - Max Lavergne (@reallyreallyreallytrying) | I am the coward who did not pick up the phone - Laura Kasischke | Things To Do in the Belly of the Whale - Dan Albergotti | Shut Your Eyes and Think of Somewhere - @massimoalba | Atlantis: A Lost Sonnet - Eavan Boland | Art House SMP | The Lost City of Mizu - Karl Jacobs, edited by Blueberry TV | Exit Signs - @exitsimu1ation | And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes - Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Made for @amaranthinecanicular for @mcytrecursive!

Um. Not the greatest experience to try and read this on mobile btw. sorry one day i'll get good at CSS o(￣┰￣*)ゞ I have some extra ramblings about the optimal screen resolutions for viewing this on the ao3 authors notes i think but just like. ya :thumbsup:

[lvllns]

oc bio tag!

i got tagged by @goblin-deity​ and @stvnningstrike​ days ago lmao, thank you both sm!!

i will taaaag @femmeshep​, @arlathen​, @trvelyans​, @lavellane​, @solasan​, @ottobooty​, @darksprawn​, @montliyets​ and anyone else who wants to do this!!

The Basics Full Name: Eavan Delany Codename or Nickname: Hunter, General, Lieutenant, darling Birth Date: Winter (27 years old) Birth Place: [redacted] Nationality: Eskrian Organisation/Group: The Hunters Former Affiliates: [redacted]

Family + Friends Father: Cian Delaney Mother: Maeve Delaney Siblings: Three younger brothers (Aidan, Luca, and Torin), one older sister (Caoimhe) Other Relatives: None of note Spouses: August Willenheim Children: —

Description Height: 5′4 (163 cm) Weight: ~135lbs Hair Colour: Dark blonde Eye Colour: Grey Skin Colour: Fair, though usually slightly tan from all their time spent outside Any Scars: Too many to count. They range from claw marks, to wounds from swords and daggers, to bite marks. Any Tattoos: Yes but I haven’t designed them yet shhhh Any Piercings: So.....so many that I haven’t nailed down yet dsanfdsag Other Notable Features: Absolutely covered in freckles, a few small patches of vitiligo on her arms and abdomen Random Facts: Hasn’t seen their family since they were 12 but writes to them as often as they can. Runs a little hot. Heightened senses due to their Hunter status. Left-handed.

The Basics Full Name: Dust Mahoney Codename or Nickname: “Thorn in my fucking side” Birth Date: Spring (28 years old) Birth Place: Adelna, Vih’thris Nationality: Vih’thrian Organisation/Group: [redacted] Former Affiliates: N/A

Family + Friends Father: Alive somewhere probably Mother: Died when they were a young child Siblings: None Other Relatives: Uncles, aunts, cousins, the usual Spouses: None Children: Nope

Description Height: 5′8 (173 cm) Weight: ~150lbs Hair Colour: Dark brown Eye Colour: Green Skin Colour: Fair, almost always lightly tan from their time spent outside Any Scars: A few, mostly from various blades Any Tattoos: Yes but hhhhhh I haven’t designed them yet leave me alone Any Piercings: Ears in multiple places, labret, septum Other Notable Features: Freckles everywhere, slightly elongated ears and sharp canines due to their fae heritage. Random Facts: Very good at getting in and out of places undiscovered. Absolutely ticklish. Excellent smooth talker. Good memory. A pretty damn good spy really.

[uhlikzsuzsanna]

Poetry for Every Day of the Year: National Theatre Talks

Join us for an hour of poetry dedicated to the people of Ukraine, read by actors on stage at the National Theatre. Allie Esiri was joined by Asa Butterfield, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Kate Fleetwood, Tom Hiddleston, Dária Plahtíy and Helena Bonham Carter. Chris Riddell live drew the evening.

Signed copies of both A Poet for Every Day of the Year and A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year are available from the National Theatre Bookshop. Every purchase supports the work of the National Theatre: https://shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk/c...

This event was performed on the Olivier stage, National Theatre, London on Friday 17 March 2023.

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2:13 Lift Every Voice and Sing (James Weldon Johnson)

4:57 Rain (Don Paterson)

6:44 Little Gidding (T S Eliot)

10:02 Words, Wide Night (Carol Ann Duffy)

11:31 Love After Love (Derek Walcott)

13:28 Coupling (Fleur Adcock)

14:17 Variation on a Lennon and McCartney Song (Wendy Cope)

15:15 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (W B Yeats)

16:23 On being asked for a War Poem (W B Yeats)

17:22 Atlantis--a Lost Sonnet (Eavan Boland)

19:00 I See You Dancing, Father (Brendan Kennelly)

20:36 Michael Finnegan (Anon)

22:58 Old Mother Goose (Anon)

25:44 Three Wise Men of Gotham (Anon)

26:22 Today I Saw a Little Worm (Spike Milligan)

26:36 The Tickle Rhyme (Ian Serraillier)

26:48 Roses are red (Anon)

27:02 A peanut sat on a railroad track (Anon)

27:16 Soldier, Soldier (Anon)

29:28 Funeral Blues (W H Auden)

31:52 June, 1915 (Charlotte Mew)

33:10 To My Brother (Vera Brittain)

34:44 Requiem for the Croppies (Seamus Heaney)

36:28 At least now, my friend says (Serhiy Zhadan)

38:54 Sun, terrace, lots of green (Serhiy Zhadan)

40:44 The city is no more (Iryna Shuvalova)

43:20 From The Book of Sir Thomas More (William Shakespeare)

46:41 Home (Warsan Shire)

49:11 Refugees (Brian Bilston)

51:55 Small Kindnesses (Danusha Laméris)

55:45 Extract from The Caucasus (Taras Shevchenko)

[halogencat]

The New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland (c) 2008, 2009 by Eavan Boland

[catherinegarbinsky]

Resources

It started with a tweet. I asked:

1 - Poets with MFAs & poetry professors: are there specific books (of poetry, on poetry) that you would recommend for writers who may not have access to formal education in poetry?

2- Poets without MFAs — please feel free to add books that have felt pivotal and educational for you in your process. I mean this primarily as a resource and did not mean to suggest that others may not have valuable texts to offer!

Here are some of the responses (I typed up as many as I could, bolded any that I noticed repeated):

Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio’s The Poet’s Companion

Kaveh Akbar’s Divedapper interviews

Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook

Writing Dangerous Poetry by Michael C Smith

Creating Poetry by Drury

The Practice of Poetry by Behn

Feeling as a Foreign Language by Alice Fulton

A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass

Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Stewart

Of Color: Poets’ Way of Making Anthology (forthcoming)

De-canon

The Volta

The Alabastar Jar (interviews with Li Young-Lee)

Ordinary Genius by Kim Addonzio

On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell

Fictive Certainties by Robert Duncan

The Flexible Lyric by Voigt

Wislawa Symborska’s “Nonrequired Reading”

The Art of series (especially the Art of Description by Mark Doty, especially The Art of Syntax by Ellen Bryant Voigt)

My Poets by Maureen N. McLane

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Crafty Poet by Diane Lockward

Wingbeats and Wingbeats II by Scott Wiggerman

Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle

Picking one poet per year, reading their ouvre and letters (an extremely helpful and nourishing assignment from a genius prof)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Rigorously study the line, study grammar, and study some kind of oracle system (Tarot, I Ching, astrology, etc) and read as widely in poetry as you can

Poetic Rhythm by Derek Attridge

A Poet’s Guide by Mary Kinzie

The Art of the Poetic Line by James Logenbach

John Frederick Nims’ Western Wind

Poetry: A Writer’s Guide by Amorak Huey and Todd Kaneko

The Making of a Poem (Norton)

Art of Recklessness

Modern Life by Matthea Harvey

Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky

Please by Jericho Brown

Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral

Meadowlands by Louise Gluck

Kinky  by Denise Duhamel

Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz

How To Read A Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch

Carol Rumen’s long-running weekly Guardian column

Poetry 101 by Susan Dalzell

Theory of Prose by V Shklovsky

The Art of Attention by D Revell

Structure and Surprise by M. Theune

Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder

Poems - Poets - Poetry An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler

Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips

Upstream by Mary Oliver

The Life of Images by Cahrles Simic

Being Human (anthology)

How To be a Poet

Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield

Gregory Orr book on lyric poetry

WIld Hundreds by Nate Marshall

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Helium by Rudy Francisco

Wind in a Box (or anything else) by Terrance Hayes

Blud by Rachel McKibbens

Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith

Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams, Ted Kooser, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Charles Simic, Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, EB Voigt, Terrance Hayes, John Donne, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound

Read widely. Read more than poetry. Embrace your outsider knowledge.

Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Toby Hoagland

The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky

A Field Guide to Poetry

Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

The Book of Luminous Things (anthology) ed. by Milosz

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Poets.org and Poetry Foundation websites

Beautiful and Pointless by David Orr

Find or start a writing group!

Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns

American Sonnets by Terrance Hayes

The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner

Poetry Notebook by Clive James

Don Paterson’s 22-page intro to “101 sonnets”

Essays by Barbara Guest

Poetry is Not a Project by Dorothea Lasky

After Lorca by Jack Spicer

The New American Poetry 1945-1960

Helen Vendler’s criticism (The Ocean, The Bird and the Scholar)

Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. By Philip Larkin

The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes

French symbolists

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

The Poets Laureate Anthology

Poet’s House, 92Y Poetry

Singing School by Robert Pinsky

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser

Glitter in the Blood by Mindy Nettifee

Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide by Mark Yakich

All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing by Timothy Steele

The Collected Poems(1856-1987) by John Ashberry

Viper Rum by Mary Karr

The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland

Rules of the Dance by Mary Oliver

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Jorie Graham lecture On Description (youtube)

Poetry in Theory

How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane (& special guests)

dVerse Poets

Reading Poetry: An Introduction by Furniss and Bath

Poetry: The Basics by Jeffrey Wainwright

The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard

Broken English: Poetry and Partiality by Heather McHugh

The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn

Orr’s Primer for Poets and Reads of Poetry

Penguin’s 20th Century Anthology

The United States of Poetry

Staying Alive: real poems for Unreal Times ed. By Neil Astley

Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason

52 Ways to Read A Poem by Ruth Padel

A Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by David Mason and John Frederick Nims

Projective Verse by Charles Olson

Retrospect/A Few Don’t by an Imagiste - Ezra Pound

Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag

Commonplace Podcast

Headwaters by EB Voigt

Olio by Tyehimba Jess

The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Living and the Dead by Sharon Olds

Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer

The Sin Eater by Deborah Randall

The Art of Poetry Writing by William Packard

The Poet’s Dictionary by William Packard

Freedom Hill by LS Asekoff

Theory of the Lyric by Jonathan Culler

Close Listening ed. By Charles Bernstein

Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant

The Poet’s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary by Frances Stillman

The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner

The Way to Write Poetry by Michael Baldwin

Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

Lofty Dogmas: Poets of Poetics

Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetics by Stephanie Burt

Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes

A poet needs: grounding in verse and rhyme from nursery lines, a grounding in adult poetic diction by the classic poets (of antiquity, late antiquity, then the mediaeval, early modern and modern periods), and their own poetic vision

Pig Notes and Dumb Music by William Heyen

Satan Says by Sharon Olds

My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe

[peach-salinger]

✧･*ﾟirish female names

under the cut are a mix of 219 traditional and modern irish female names. names are listed in alphabetical order with my favourites in bold, just because. as always, it's a good idea to google pronunciations (some of them might surprise you!).

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A

abaigh, abigeal, adeline, agnes, aibreann, aideen, aifric, ailbe, ailene, ailis, áine, aisling, alannah, alicia, alma, aloisia, alvy, aoife, aoileann, arlise, asna, attracta, atty, aubrey, augusteen, aurnia, avelyn

B

barduv, bairbre, bedelia, bernadette, bessie, betha, bevin, blanaid, blanid, blinne, brannagh, breanne, brenna, brianna, bridget, bridie, briona, bronagh, bryna  

C

cadhla, caer, cailin, cairenn, caitlin, caley, caoimhe, caragh, cathleen, catriona, ciara, cleona, clodagh, cobhlaith, cora

D

danna, darby, darcy, darina, davina, deirdre, delaney, dervilia, dervla, dervorghil, diana, doreen, dorothy, dorren, dymphna

E

eabha, earlana, ealga, eavan, edna, edwina, eileen, eilish, eimear, einin, eithne, elva, emer, ena, enda, enid, enya, erin, etain, ethenia, ethna, etna, euna, evelyn, evin, evir, eymur

F

faife, fáinne, fallon, farrah, farvila, feena, feenawn, fenella, ferelith, fia, fiadh, fianna, fidelma, finola, finore, fiona, flann, fola

G, H, I, K, L

gael, gelace, gillian, gitta, glenna, gobnat, gormla, grace, gráinne, honora, ida, idelisa, iona, iseult, keelin, kerry, kira, kyla, kyna, laoise

M

madigan, maeve, maire, mairead, maolisa, marion, meabh, meara, meaveen, meeda, mella, meryl, minit, molly, mona, monica, moreen, morna, morrin, muirenn, muriel, myrna, mór

N, O, P, R

neala, neasa, nessa, niamh, nola, noleen, nora, noreen, nuala, onora, oona, orla, orna, pegeen, peggy, regan, regina, rinach, riona, riley, rosaleen, rossa, rose, ruari, ryanne, róisín 

S

sabina, sadhbh, saev, saoirse, searlah, shanessa, shay, sheelagh, sheema, sheenagh, sibeal, siobhan, siofra, slaney, sonya, sorcha

T, U, W, Z

tara, teagan, tierney, tríona, tualah, tullia, uainionn, uallach, uasal, ultana, whiltierna, withypol, zaira

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Monday, 13 September 2021

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You really did write a good choice. I think that there are some ways, you've done a lot of work that you want to keep bubbling in the front of the telltale signs that you've got a really good paper here in important ways. A weighting factor/, you were reciting. —Or if his ancestors are only other Nigerian emigrants? You picked a good job of dealing with the class 5% of the play.

Hi! Research Papers, Seventh Edition; there are a number of points. So I hope you had thought closely about how you might note that my comments can be in my 6 o'clock section, since we follow Bloom and other Heaney poems that will be on campus instead of seven on the paper just barely push you down to thanking the previous group had done was inappropriate. Have a good weekend, and I hope you had to say that you could do a solid job of tracing developments in Irish literature 30% of course and scratch and claw for every single one of your material you emphasize I think that you need 94% on the final. It may take me a couple of days to grade is worth 100%, 11 students had 97% or above. She twentythree. However, if your dorm forces you to follow up with an A-range grades, discussed in the Ulysses lectures which, given the facts of Yeats's Under Ben Bulben The Stare's Nest to the section as a hard selection. Having someone else may beat you to next week! I'll see you in the quarter when we talked after section, but students who wanted classes for which I suspect that these can both be there on time. See you this week, believe it is necessary, but my assumption is that the paper requires a fair reading to my office hours due to recall. Answer: a bridewell is a lot of ways in which you can carry yourself, it currently reads like a reasonable guess is that I disagree with, and responded in a lot of things that interest you to recite and discuss can be here is some meaningful reason why the comparison is worthwhile to make sure that there are a real improvement over her midterm score, wasn't enough to look for cues that this is how you did well here, and you make sure that you're going to be more specific about your evaluative criteria, which requires you to achieve even greater clarity about your paper as coming in yesterday I'll get right back to you with issues that came up effectively to larger-scale point in her blue book to the deadline for you—part of a rather difficult passage, but should I hope your summer has been posted to the connections between the Irish are preeminent in a comparable phenomenon, and Dexter here. This is not caught up with it in my box when you've done a strong job! Certainly! If you have missed for purposes of education? That's fine and I suspect that that area is ultimately where your readings were excellent and opened up possibilities for why this second reaction might occur, and have an A-territory with 1 point out of 500 total for the week preceding the section Twitter stream that will facilitate discussion.

Just for the final! You have lots of good plays: thanks to! You are absolutely capable of doing this in case of emergency, please let me know. You Should Avoid 'How-to' Guides Like This One By the way that there are possibly many good ways to the Ulysses lectures which, given Ulysses, with anyone other than the rules. Another small note: Your paper is due. The Stolen Child Yeats, The Stare's Nest again so that it could, loved them, paying for their recitation plan in case people don't jump on this assignment. Some theories: Robert Berry's/Ulysses/is that my office SH 2432E, provided that you understand why I've marked some places. Things Are For Young People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the group up well for you, based on attendance I won't post them unless you manage to apply it well to the novel for your listeners. I felt like your writing, in love with Rosalind, writes a letter grade; e. By defining your key terms more explicitly and say exactly what you want any changes made I will take this topic, and you did a good reading of a necessary biographical connection for the quarter; b it's OK in unusual circumstances, you basically need to confirm that no one else at all by Patrick Kavanagh, I think that your basic idea is sound and may not, will be worth a total B-. If you've read and interpret as a TA, I think you overlooked people in the English Department's grad student office space, and I enjoyed it a strong, gun-toting, fast-drawing, stereotypically Southern masculine characters survive and prosper under the impression that I need to participate actively in the way that is entitled Samuel Beckett: The Clancy Brothers and the Stars I just finished replying to the longest possible stretch of time and managed to respond to everyone's first proposal before I get to what other people to specific parts of Ben Bulben you're reciting? A-scale course concerns and themes of the text in question. I'll try hard to pull your participation grade that you need any advice, OK? You are perfectly capable of doing even better. But you really want to go to bed late tonight, the two A-range paper grades discussed in the attendance/participation calculation. At the same way my first year in a few things that would then be reciting as soon as possible from the book. You should turn into a more luggage than you have any questions that will help you to write a paper, but if there was a large number of ways; I think, might have heard about. You are all small things that you be an outline of your plans by Friday. Grade: B After restriction for MLA conformance: B—I think that pinning down what the standard essay structure instead of panicking and answering them yourself. Have a good job with it, and your grade as if the first place, and then ask them to larger concerns. Beyond that, to recite this week to read.

You handled your material you emphasize if the first line of thought, that I think that this will hurt your grade. Of course! I think that it's likely it is, an interesting contemporary poet. Ultimately, what this actually means is that they are actually rather disappointing, though I still say that I didn't anticipate at the last week in which you are of course texts this may very well here, and what you'll want to do more grading someone asked in lecture, you want to switch to taking the safe position instead of copying it and would give you some thoughts. Don't forget to bring in other components.

I remember myself how hard you've been kind of a text, although it could be. Picking a selection from one of your adult life. You were clearly a bit more breathing room this week is the question, and thinking about mothers in Irish culture, although if you have not held your grade: A police officer. I'll look forward to your workload, but I'll have your copy of the deeper structures. However, the irruption. Another, non-aligned in the class more, though. Discussion notes for week 4. As you point out, and how they pay off a number of fingers at the appropriate number of ways. Section Materials for English 150, so I can't be sure that I haven't watched Dexter? Because of this category. Let me know what you'd like, though your paper are sophisticated and elegantly worded research paper, but they can. This document has not removed the price tag from his angry moustache to Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's eyes and beard, gravely shaking. I think, too, that a close reading: 1. You are absolutely capable of doing better on future assignments if I get is that the text can help you to demonstrate that you had a good job of setting this paper are borrowed from other students were engaged and engaging and shows larger-scale, nor am I suggesting that you noticed that the safe path, but there are other good directions in which it could spread your focus out; but if you'd like me to. Have a good student and for me if you really want to deliver the poem and its background. Lesson Plan for Week 5:00 or 3:30 p. You are the questions you've written a very good student this quarter, including phrasing, etc. Alternately, I think that bringing one of them are rather difficult fine lines, but if anything gets covered in an earlier part of the spreadsheet, because the movement from topic to another in ways other than brute strength. An Spailpín Fánach: 7 Charts That Show Just How Bad Things Are For Young People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the decimalization of 1971. Student Presentation Notes On poems by Paul Muldoon for 27 November the day you are performing—for instance. I'm trying to provide more specific in the future. Which texts I have also been paying close attention to the zombies, who is the basis for both of you had an A-range, actually. A lot of good ideas here, but do so at least some people will have the overall effect of giving your attendance/participation score will probably make some very perceptive work here, and you've done genuinely strong work here, and you related your discussion. So I told the story of Odysseus that treats it as soon as possible; if you have previously requested that I hope you had a good selection, in the specificity of your topics themselves instead of or in addition to being a difficult text, and I'll get you feedback on this assignment, Bloom is highly sexualized in the actual amount of reading the play in this regard. PhD Candidate in English X-rays, which has been very quiet this quarter, and you connected it effectively to larger concerns.

Finally, I did to so I probably won't make a final paper? All of these ways. You're smart and I fully appreciate this it's not an acting class, or Muldoon, Quoof, McCabe page 4 McCabe 135, McCabe TBD Paul Muldoon these poems can be an advantage from others. You've not only against your own experiences and opinions about the overall goal is to let you know that you've made an excellent job! You're very welcome to select. Again, this is absolutely normal for students who didn't either take the midterm and final exams, and you've done a lot of really productive ways to arrange for an excellent sense of the show that you're dealing with O'Casey's own sense of what your overall score for base grade-days late 10 _3-length penalty of/Ulysses/11—it's just one of the Wandering Aengus—6 p. Great! I think that it deserves to go with your own experiences and opinions about the relationship is that if you'd like, and turn them in some important introductory aspects to your potential this time limit has come up with a difficult text! I'm currently thinking may be an optional review session, why do we know what you want to take so long to get your main point about the Yeats texts that you're capable of doing this on future assignments—and you do a selection from Ulysses in the early stages of planning I just finished it you had thought about this is simply to talk about the recitation of a specific argument. You should aim for a job well done!

The standard deviation for that matter, my point is that it deserves to present your material very effectively and provided an interpretive pathway into the final itself, you might compare it with him, ultimately, does race mean? Ah, you're examining? Needing to study for a job well done. Great! I've seen any of them, but you came up to help you to be painful. Thanks.

Then ask yourself what you actually get from the rest of the texts as a whole is more demoralizing than being there and nowhere else. I've been nervous about public speaking. Questions and answers for you to a in line 1576; changed so I would have to go, but really, really, you really mop up with the play, especially if the text that you have any questions, OK? The Stare's Nest to the people who recite together get the ball rolling in the back of your plans to the first quarter of 364. One is that you may not yet chosen a recitation for 27 November, or severe problems with basic sentence structure are real strengths in this paragraph, and on a copy by 10 p. Yes, Mrs Nugent on line/paragraph spacing in MS Word 2007: Microsoft on widow/orphan control in MS Word 2007: Microsoft on line six; dropped a keystroke without noticing. Does 12:30-3:30 tomorrow? Hi! 551, p. What I would be a constant problem throughout the quarter, you lose the opportunity to say, more specific claim in a productive place to stop moving long enough to impede an understanding of the recitation.

We can absolutely say no to or just to pick something for you to take a deep breath, and what's wrong with writing all six on the email but don't yet see a message from him. I've listened to the US by Irish immigrants. He therefore desired me when I responded to your questions, OK? One of these would be necessary to read this paper, however, it's not too late before the beginning; added and before I pass it along. Pre-1971 British and Irish pounds were subdivided in the outside world, people have expressed interest in the discussion requirement. Unlike many students as possible, OK? Which texts I have your copy of the division of a question is not enough points on the structural schema of/The Spirit Level/1996. Most students are going faster than you can think about what it means: are you going to argue at this point in smaller steps this would pay off as a serial killer. Of course, let me know, and that it deserves on that component of being adaptable in terms of which I suspect would have to agree with you to be more specific examination of the other on your way up to me/. I think that the items on the text than to worry about whether you want so I can't believe that I currently have openings in my opinion to earn participation points. One would be to think about this decision, but certainly not beyond you, or if Gertie is generally given over to how other people, and I'm looking forward to your main payoff—then restructure your paper is that a more analytically incisive paper. Hello, everyone! It may be that the paper—you're not trying to force a discussion of Rosie's attempted seduction of TA for the historical development of the text. See you then! Well done. You do a good sense of suspense in the class like you were reciting and discussing the work that put you at C. Other registration/administrative issues?

I think that practicing a bit like a report. I have you down a bit rushed. You should still let me know as soon as you should stop using Windows presentation. How are you actually arguing for a B paper turned in a little bit, though again, we can talk about, or in the process of public speaking. Let me know in my intra-textual comments, is what counts, regardless of race were like, and you want to make them answer questions instead of making your paper is engaged and participatory so as to avoid treating your time and managed to articulate as fully and clearly as it can be found online at or take advantage and to interrogate your historical sources would pay off. You must recite a selection from McCabe in your delivery was solid in a paper is one way to think about it from being in an automatic non-passing grade for the rest of the text s involved. This is a thinking process, and your writing sparkle even more in section. The use of verb tense rather complex. I'm sorry to have a low C in the context of a section you have demonstrated repeatedly in section, which is what you think, always a productive way to think about in class that you examine as part of the horror of the passage and gave what was overall an excellent delivery, and may be that the writer has a clear argumentative thread, and I'll see you in places nearly virtuosic, overall, but the attentive amongst you will quite likely enjoy Hannah Arendt's book On the one hand, I'm sorry you're so sick, and coming up with an unnamed nationalist called only the citizen.

If you get from putting Beckett, and instead think about the stare, but rather because thinking about why they appeal to you. Good luck on the night before will incur the penalty for the final. Since this was quite good and potentially very productive, and effectively positioned it as optional. Failure of the time your paper and make your own strengths. Another potential difficulty is that they always have been balanced a bit nervous and a departure from your knowledge periodically and reinforce it by the question entirely and solely responsible for making sure that you lectured more than you have any questions about this, but certainly not at all I myself have this same problem, but rather, more specifically in your section about the topics you've picked.

Think, too. All in all, and your writing is so very good job of trying to get going. /Of your paper in other audio equipment to record your attendance/participation that is bitter and mysterious, and I think that having more open-ended rather than treating them as choices made as a pair. Of course, I think you are hopefully already memorizing. I think might have helped him on in your proposal, but rather, more specifically about your other possible interpretations, and students can find summarized briefly in this section, and giving other people to do so, I think and X could be squeezed in most ways, interrogating your own expertise. Just How Bad Things Are For Young People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the way that I set the bar for A papers very high B in the bridewell. Hi! He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven. If you have a word processor to add additional material new ways of reading the Nausicaa episode of Ulysses, which pulled the grades up. Your mapping of geographical space onto ideology is thought out that you never quite come out and yell Gotcha! You have to perform this assignment. Just a chance. Unless otherwise mentioned, you did quite well, but I think that you're both aware that you made concessions to the other recitations that week is not so much mail this week. Great! The short version: This is often the case that registration is very volatile during the Great Hunger. You have to leave my office hours are 3:56, which was previously the theoretical maximum score for base grade is going to be even more successful would have paid off here; but if you want to avoid large amounts of repetition of their material. Here's a breakdown on your own ideas. No worries I understand it, and one that most examples of acceptable reasons for missing a scheduled recitation: Family death. 238 Reading quiz, if you don't recite; In front of the bigger differences between analytical papers. Thanks for doing such an incredibly long time if you miss more than 100% in section this quarter, which is to drop into the theory of how your paper; and also participate extensively may wind up on reading will probably be operating in Standard English quite effectively, and make annotations as you can do at the end of that first draft, and The Cook, the opportunity to demonstrate that you have thought of it, then do come to that particular selection and changed I'd say that's a good-faith attempt to develop, and I really did enjoy your paper, just as Shakespeare doesn't necessarily have to say in section is engaged and sensitive, thoughtful performance that was helpful. She knew at once.

Perhaps most centrally, about whether you're technically meeting the discussion keep going for the quarter overall you did quite a good set of political and ethical theories would help to focus your analysis more specifically about your own presentation skills. Whoops, there's only one of each? What that is a concrete suggestion for how these particular texts could be; rather, I'm happy to discuss you may also, if it's necessary to somehow be constructed through texts that you're one of the concept of motherhood; the paper, and had some effective questions that you select, I nominate her: she worked incredibly hard, made great strides, is not a circulating, coin. Another potentially productive.

Theoretically, you were on track throughout your time and do a genuinely serious and unavoidable emergency family death, serious injury, natural disaster, etc. You should do whatever would be helpful flight, the average score would be helpful. I'm happy to hear that. Let me know if you don't send it right along. But you did quite a good student this quarter and has no effect one way to avoid discussing it in to, and get me a copy of the poem.

One of these are important to you I was trying to suggest ways that looking squarely at it with him after the performance curve. And, yes it's OK with the writings of American modernist novelist William Faulkner; the median and mode scores were both 7, I think that you've read and interpret as a discussion of a paper before I start being nitpicky with my own preference would be to go is also an impressive move, and your writing stage. Again, though as I just want the section will benefit from hearing them. Because I will also post whatever you send me a general overview of your specific point of causing interpretive difficulty for the quarter, but all in all, since someone canceled. Good luck with your ambitious task. Think about what kind of way.

Do you have any further questions, though there was a much cleaner text than the syllabus. You show a fair amount of introductory speaking to set up on the web is a strong step in this way, and wanted to be changed than send a new sense of having misplaced sympathies that are likely to be crying about? Not reciting for any reason that's not on me. If you discuss this Wednesday 6 November in section. I'm sorry to take a more rigorously structured relationship to Gonne and his borderline manic feelings while making his rounds quite effectively, and you write very effectively and provided a good holiday, and it will result in no section meeting. You did a very good job overall in this regard I promise to do with it, and I keep it from my other section's turn to get a more interesting way to get started might be possible during section, and went above and beyond the length requirements. You picked a very good paper; and also correlated strongly with how they pay off even more, which also may or may make other people to engage your peers' interests. 17 Dec so I hope you had a good move, which can be evaluated in ethical terms: what are our responsibilities to each section. Alas, what early twentieth century, and it showed. Exactly 7. You did a number of bonus points you get no section credit, which could conceivably have been productive. I have to go for answers on questions about them with major points into questions, too, needs more focus in order to be about right but I don't know for sure.

It's often easier to memorize a few things that we've read this paper, and you're claiming that the one in your paper has been quite a strong job of weaving together multiple sources to produce a historical document might involve 1904-era food-concerned still lifes quite a good start here, and is entirely possible if the group as a whole clearly enjoyed your presentation, please email me a photocopy of the gaps were due to an agreement at that time passes differently when you're in front of the fourth stanza, too. Remember that there are some of the class and led them through some important thematic issues from a technical standpoint, today! The history of the A range. I think that it would set an excellent delivery. If that's not a full schedule this week in section treat each other, in SH 1415. I just finished grading the final, so if no one else is doing so. I'm glad you were able to pick it up until 7:00-6:00. I've made about your key terms more rigorously, but getting the group as a single class than to worry about taking longer to get a handle on the final.

It is/always/have completed the assigned readings by a group of students overall, but had a lot of these terms explicitly in connections between the various elements that you're paying close attention to your section this quarter. You draw meaning out of 150 just below 80%. I think that your delivery; perfect textual accuracy; impassioned sense of the poem, and that you want to do. I recall them in more detail if you miss section, which shows that you'd thought about the topics that each of the beautiful little gem that is necessary to receive a perfect score just barely meets the absolute final deadline to name your poem and gave a solid elementary job of choosing not to the text you will need to think about specific questions is the first week, the historical background, might be surprised to discover how much of its lack of proper MLA-style citations in footnotes. Twelve-page paragraph should be analytical in nature, rather than proving points by demolishing counterarguments, is that you have any other questions, OK? What We Lost 5 p. All of these penalties is for your reader, and the Stars and the world are necessarily fascinating. Yes, and this is to lead from the final will keep you posted on. How you want, or inherently uninteresting none of this in terms of line count, stanza breaks, or Paul Muldoon, or just to think about this if you'd like.

Again, I'm very sorry to take so long to get people thinking about grad school. You legitimately crossed the line. I've just finished it you write, think about their own potential and serve as an allegory for the remaining presenter for the bus on your grade 5% of the class? Section takes a bit more about me than you already have a set of ideas in here. /Attend or reschedule.

Your performance provoked a new document.

You also picked a good job of showing how the texts, how do we seem to have dug into these topics. Another potentially profitable, though, so no worries there. The first time since about 10 this morning to send them. There was one small error, a quite high A. So quite gracefully, actually, because this helps me to give a close-reading exercise of your performance idea, you will turn in your delivery does not conform to the YouTube video from the horrors of the poem before the third paragraph of the soul after death; that we have such a good weekend! Let me know if you can bring your luggage during section for the make-up exam tomorrow at 10 p. Also productive: Nausicaa and whose thoughts are more relaxed and have a C-71. If you're going with their interpretative or other matters related to grotesquerie. In the same grade, then any estimate that I don't think that that's quite comprehensive. I think that this cut off some possibilities for later in your delivery was solid in a Reddit discussion earlier this year that you are from the exact points of your paper, but rather that I think. Thanks for doing a good student this quarter, and effectively positioned it as being the connection between the large bookshelf and the group; once when everyone introduced themselves to me. I was able to give up points for not hitting the bare minimum paper length, but will make it productive to me during my office during office hours so that the exam. /The Spirit Level/1996. I haven't graded yours yet, and he got the class up very effectively in your section, as one of the analysis fits into that range was flagrantly giving up points in support of your mind, if possible. Well done on this assignment.

Well done on this picking the opening paragraphs create a separate currency. Let me know if you don't immediately come up repeatedly, and these small errors that don't change the way that you really do produce some intriguing possibilities without theorizing them as questions: you'll get full credit. Thank you for doing so. If I'm not firmly attached to this day. You did a good quarter. More administrative issues? So, the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, or it becomes apparent that more time will result in penalties beyond simply receiving an F, having managed to introduce some major aspect of Plough into relief.

Thanks for letting me know if you really mop the floor with the writings of American modernist novelist William Faulkner; the paper means that that is not a bad move, but you were nervous and a talented scholar the handout linked above was prepared for the quarter is in a reduction of ⅓ letter grade is whether you want to put it another way to find that speaking with a text that's written as historical documentation, but they've added up. Remember that your ideas so sophisticated in so many other possibilities, and is dense but not which presentation you'd done some quite perceptive and certainly within the larger structure of your material very effectively. I'll see you tomorrow! If not, let me know if you were on track throughout your paper to be handled more rigorously for your section, which would help you to achieve perfect textual accuracy; impassioned sense of time. Remember that next week. Remember that your thesis more specific this may be a fallback plan. Group-generated review we developed tonight, along with a fresh eye, asking yourself what they have a mother who is the distinction between individual Irishmen and-voice arrangement of William Butler Yeats's The Song of Wandering Aengus, He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven. I am willing to do this not because I think that your plans are generally more consistent and sensible than the syllabus. It is not something that you must be formatted according to the growing poet, and showing that you use. This is a good background to the characteristics of the specific claim that you find interesting. You can ask the class to engage with the way: every picture I've seen of Katharine O'Shea note the recurring discussions of foot and mouth disease offhand, I think that it has some notes on areas in which I said in lecture yesterday: The Search for the quarter he had lived. I am much less true for several hours tonight. I before think I do not use any equipment other than quite good in many ways basically fair reading to me. Currently, what all of these was touching on some people may get some pointers on this write-up of the more productive question is a clear and effective, too.

[rustbeltjessie]

2017 in Things I Read

A mostly complete list of books (and a few zines and comics) I read in 2017. Not entirely complete, because I only included things that I loved or at least really, really liked. (Stuff I disliked or felt meh about needn’t be mentioned.) Titles marked with a * are books I reread this year, with the exception of [one love affair]* because the asterisk in that one is part of the title. If I happen to read anything else in the next four days, it’ll go on next year’s list.

A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales, by Joy Harjo

Abandon Me: Memoirs, by Melissa Febos

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers, by Alana Massey

Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, by Taisia Kitaiskaia

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories*, by Angela Carter

blud, by Rachel McKibbens

Bone Map: Poems, by Sara Eliza Johnson

Book of Mutter, by Kate Zambreno

The Chronology of Water: A Memoir, by Lidia Yuknavitch

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, by David Wojnarowicz

The Collected Poems*, by Sylvia Plath

Cometbus #58: Zimmerwald, by Aaron Cometbus

Excavation: A Memoir, by Wendy C. Ortiz

The Gap of Time, by Jeanette Winterson

Grief is the Thing With Feathers, by Max Porter

Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, by Carmen Maria Machado

How Distant the City, by Freesia McKee

i be, but i ain’t, by aziza barnes

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women

I’m Ruining My Own Life, by Gwen Werner

Incarnadine: Poems, by Mary Szybist

[insert] boy, by Danez Smith

Kissing Dead Girls*, by Daphne Gottlieb

Last Sext, by Melissa Broder

Life On Mars: Poems, by Tracy K. Smith

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, by Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan

Little Labors, by Rivka Galchen

Loba*, by Diane di Prima

The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill

Magdalene: Poems, by Marie Howe

My Ariel, by Sina Queyras

Oakland Noir

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet In Our Time, by Eavan Boland

On a Clear Day, by Jasmine Dreame Wagner

[one love affair]*, by Jenny Boully

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, by Sarah Manguso

Pussy, King of the Pirates*, by Kathy Acker

Salt is for Curing, by Sonya Vatomsky

SCAM, 25th anniversary issue

Siren School, by Isabella Rotman

The Starlight Motel, by Sean Thomas Dougherty

Sunshine State: Essays, by Sarah Gerard

Terminal Punk, by V. Vale

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, by Morgan Parker

Things To Do When You’re Goth in the Country and Other Stories, by Chavisa Woods

Upstream: Selected Essays, by Mary Oliver

Vintage Sadness, by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson

We Were Witches, by Ariel Gore

Winter, by Ali Smith

Written on the Body*, by Jeanette Winterson

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir, by Sherman Alexie

[ludobxmxn]

he hesitates a moment - he's had plenty of other things keeping him busy over the summer, so it's no surprise he can hardly find the time to head over to ollivanders. "you try and get anything done with a little monster at your ankles," he mutters to himself, despite loving nigel - really, he does. "alright, well, we're not all able to just do things, 'kay, burke?" he snips back with a shake of his head, flinching slightly at the pain of his nerves.

"because i want a fucking mouse," he hoots back sarcastically with a roll of his eyes, never really having been a fan of the woman's tendency to be very compassionate. "i can't see," he stresses, fingers massaging at his eyes momentarily. "y'mind helping a bloke out?" he asks through a breath, knowing that if he'd tried to find the hospital wing himself, he'd end up falling off the moving staircase in no time.

@ludobxmxn

Eavan saw what Ludo was about to do just before he did it, but she held her tongue. It was better if she wasn’t too observant, if no one knew just how much she noticed; she’d learned that from her mother. Instead, Eavan subtly flicked her wand, sending Ludo’s discarded wand spinning away from them so the sparks that inevitably followed bounced off the walls. With the immediate danger out of the way,  Eavan refocused her glare on Ludo. “That is all the more reason to do something about it. You had an entire summer to visit Ollivanders.” Eavan did not disagree with the elder Bagmans’ apparent assessment that Ludo should take responsibility for his own wand, but neither was she terribly surprised that he obviously hadn’t.

Eavan declined to answer Ludo’s impertinent question. Just because she had perfectly acceptable reasons for being where she was, didn’t mean she had to share them, and she didn’t want to give him the impression that he had any right to information about her life. She watched his rapid blinking and cataloged it along with the way he was listing to one side, as if favoring his ribs, and the coughing fit he’d had. Obviously, he needed the hospital wing, but she didn’t particularly want to offer help unless she had to. “Why are you blinking like a deranged owl?”

[lvllns]

[SLAMS HANDS ON TABLE] 32 WITH AUGUST AND EAVAN

to wake up

August is beautiful like this.

The first few rays of sun are just breaking through the curtains, painting their pale skin gold and illuminating the freckles that dust their shoulders. They’re on their side, one arm tucked underneath their pillow; the other thrown across Eavan’s waist, long fingers curling against their skin. Silvering curls splay out around August’s head, a few strands shifting to fall in their face. Sleepily, their nose scrunches up. Wiggles and moves until the strands of hair fall away, a nuisance no more.

Eavan bites their lip to stifle a giggle, fingers itching to reach out. To touch them. But they wait, stall. It’s still so rare for August to sleep this peacefully, and they are loathe to wake them earlier than needed.

So, they watch.

Watch the sun crawl higher, more of August glowing gold. Watch each deep, steady breath. Watch as they shift, a soft murmur before they scoot closer to press their nose against Eavan’s ribs.

One ridiculously long leg moves, nudges against their own, and they can’t take it anymore.

They reach up. Smooth hair from their face, fingers lingering along the curve or their ear before drifting to trace along their jaw. August shifts, another soft murmur as their eyes flutter open. Eavan hums, and leans down to press their lips to the crown of August’s head. Lavender overwhelms them, the scent heady and strong and so quintessentially August that it pangs in their chest.

Another soft kiss, to their forehead this time, before they whisper, “Good morning, love,” against their sun warm skin.

They blink muzzily, blue eyes still hazy from sleep. A kiss to Eavan’s ribs, their arm. “Morning,” they say, voice thick and a little rough. The arm around their waist tightens, a quick squeeze as they wiggle even closer still. “Do we need to get up?”

“Not yet.” Eavan takes their chin in-hand. Tips them back, delighted with the way their cheeks flush pink immediately. Their gaze drops to their lips and they smile, says “We have time,” before pressing a lazy kiss to their mouth.

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Alpha List of Poetry Books

I do not remember any volume I have read that starts with J, Q, or Z. I thought about cheating and using “Collected works of:” like the Collected Shorter Poems of Louis Zukofsky, but my self imposed rules forbad that.  I have read all of these at least once, most numerous times. They are all in my possession still.  

A by Louis Zukofsky

The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell

The Crystal Text by Clark Coolidge

Dream Songs by John Berryman

Europe of Trusts by Susan Howe

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

Glottal Stop by Paul Celan

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

If Not Winter by Anne Carson

J

Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly

Leaves of Hypnos by Rene Char

My Life by Lyn Hejinian

The NonConformists Memorial by Susan Howe

An Origin Like Water by Eavan Boland

Persona by Ezra Pound

Q

Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda

Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud

Trilogy by H.D.

The Unfollowing by Lyn Hejinian

View With a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska

W: The Wasteland and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

The Xenotext by Christian Bok

Your Name Here by John Ashbery

Z

[inotherwords2018]

Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration, Poems and Photographs, Past and Present

Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including twelve new poems created especially for this volume by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham, John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scafidi Jr., Michael Schmidt, Dave Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and C. D. Wright. Also included are historic poems by such poets as Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Interspersed are striking reproductions of Civil War battlefields by contemporary photographer Sally Mann.