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Opinion | Women Are Watching – The New York Times

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09/30
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Pre-order REALITIES & THE RITUALS OF THE UPSIDE DOWN

Dear all, For our forthcoming issue (publication date November 2018), we invited 27 international poets, artists, & a scientist to reflect on today’s realities. What they offer is…

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socks – MUTTS Daily Email

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Senate Panel Approves Kavanaugh, but Flake Wants F.B.I. Investigation Before Final Vote – The New York Times

2018
09/28
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Jeff Flake Is Confronted on Video by Sexual Assault Survivors – The New York Times

 

 

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Carol Seajay, Old Wives Tales and the Feminist Bookstore Network – FoundSF

Interior of Old Wives Tales bookstore, 1980s.

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2018
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“The sheer butch glamour of printing” from “She Who Owns the Press: The Physical World of Early Feminist Publishing” by Barbara Sjoholm (2012):

Wendy-Cadden

Wendy Cadden works an offset press.

“The sheer butch glamour of printing”

 

2018
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Poems and Poetics: Rochelle Owens: “Beloved the Aardvark,” a new poem with author’s comments

The letters horizontal

 

or vertical  f l o a t  before
your eyes
a black line shapes itself
spells out the first noun in
an english dictionary
with a forefinger and thumb
spells out  A a r d v a r k
an animal from Africa
body of data  data of body
rabbitlike ears  a long cylindrical
tongue
the tail of a kangaroo
nocturnal  burrowing  a member
of the mammalian order
made of the parts
of different animals  lay your hand
feel the bones under the skin
            *
The universe contains
everything that exists  letters
that spell out
r u i  n s c a p e
end to end long strings
of words blinking in and out
as the universe contracts
e x p a n d s
across the twenty-first century
mounds of sand  appear
disappear
always the Aardvark moves
in circles  moves in circles
in the here and now                                                                                                        2
swaying side to side
massive the claws digging
searching
work is a binding obligation
a jaw opens and closes
carnal/spiritual
           *
On a computer screen
reflections of water  metal  glass
bouncing radio waves
black lines form letters
precise  methodical  long strings
of words  vertical/horizontal
words detached from
the course of events  planned
or spontaneous patterns
spirals of wind and fire
zigzags of black and white lines
layers of brown dust
biomorphic  geomorphic
polymorphic  slashes  slashes
of solar light
earth  air  fire  water
motionless the Aardvark
stands  listening  blood in
blood out
           *
Press button to see
Science and Art of creating
archetypal scenes
come into being
long ago  an hour ago
only a minute                                                                                                                  3
known and unknown shapes
the flesh of the apple  the dome
of a human skull
a mushroom cloud
each successive image
signs and wonders  earth  air
fire  water
motionless the Aardvark
stands listening  blood in
blood out
           *
Press button to see
a bucolic setting  grape vines
olive groves
fields of sunflowers
white the summer blossoms
a wedding party
the bride and groom  pale
and red his lips  her breast vein
as thick as a finger
out of his mouth
protrudes his tongue  cinnamon cumin
honey and salt
lines of insects appear
disappear  tendons and nerves
pulsate
a flow of hormonal forces
blood in  blood out  the universe
contracting
e x p a n d i n g
an outline shapes itself
playful the unborn babe in its
amniotic sac                                                                                                                    4
           *
Always the Aardvark
moves in circles  moves in circles
in the here and now
earth  air  fire  water
moves in circles  swaying
side to side  rhythmic the blood
the months in a year
disease  famine  torture  war
mounds of sand appear  disappear
massive the claws
digging  searching  long ago
an hour ago
only a minute
           *
On a warm day in spring
a woman plays a harpsichord
the lid painted with scenes
of mythological animals
known and unknown shapes
nocturnal  solitary
black zigzags
appear  disappear  motionless
the Aardvark stands
listening  a jaw opens
and closes  audible  inaudible
the sound of the predator
lay your hand
feel the bones under the skin
carnal/spiritual
author’s comment: “To look at the image of an Aardvark is to take a cosmic Rorschach test, and like a cubist mural is both a microcosm and macrocosm.  You understand
Intuitively – a Cartesian resolution of body and spirit.  The poem presented here is the first of a series of poems titled ‘Beloved the Aardvark,’ related I suppose to the poem ‘Devour Not the Elephant’ that appeared earlier in Poems and Poetics.” (Rochelle Owens)

 

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The Man Who Made Marriage Possible Discusses the Kavanaugh Threat

Michael Adams, CEO of senior advocacy organization SAGE, queries marriage equality plaintiff Jim Obergefell (pictured) on SCOTUS’s future.

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2018
09/27
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Otata 34 – October 2018

Donna Fleischer

week-long Spring rains —
singing loudly to the screen
how much you’re my sunshine

 

bra off —
lickety-split she heads out
for the studio

 

the cold warms
in mid air the bird
calls clearly through

 

door bell
just rang — will be back
(some day)

— for Takahashi Shinkichi (1901 – 1987)

Stefano Andrea

campanili –
Umbilicus veneri
nelle fessure

 

(Umbilicus rupestris è una pianta carnosa, nota comunemente come Ombelico di Venere.)

bell towers –
Umbilicus veneri
in the cracks

 (Umbilicus rupestris is a fleshy plant, commonly known as the Navel of Venus.)

 

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