October 2011
48 posts
“Here, above,
cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight.
The...”
– Elizabeth Bishop The Man-Moth
LINGUA: The Power of Prayer by SPU Writer: Sydney... →
thelinguajournal:
The day my parents announced their divorce was the best day of my life, so far. I don’t know when my next “best day” will happen but I assume it will be the day I’m the first woman in my family to graduate or the day I’m married. That day however, long ago, I remember being brought to the…
New York Law School?
Toxic (Britney Spears Cover) by Yael Naim
Erasure Poetry from Richard Nelson's The Gifts of...
The air stings against my face,
but the rest of me is warm inside thick layers of clothes.
I think how clumsy we must look.
I can’t help feeling a little anxious.
Twigs snap,
ringing out in the crisp air like strangers’ voices
to make clear they were not being thoughtlessly wasted.
The powder helps to muffle our steps.
It’s easy to sense that despite my abiding doubt
there is an...
Petition the Dr. Pepper 10 Commercial →
If you haven’t seen it yet, watch
this
and see if you feel unfairly stereotyped — as a woman or a man.
“Conventionality is not morality.”
– Emily Bronte
Fall Zine Submission Deadline
thelinguajournal:
SUBMIT YOUR
photos
art
short stories
&poetry
to thelinguajournal@gmail.com, with
your name
the works name
&the media
by 28 October 2011
do it and you’re cool.
“I suppose we were company to each other, without talking.”
– Dickens, David Copperfield
Watchwoah.
turns out…
I’m rebellious AND I have a guilt-complex.
go figure.
rebellious, adj. (and n.)
<either classical Latin rebellis or rebellion>
1. Tending to rebel; defying lawful or established authority; insubordinate, in rebellion.
2. a. Of a disease or condition: resistant to treatment.
b. Of a material thing: unmanageable; refractory; recalcitrant; offering resistance.
Hey All --
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Do you like photography?
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and support the arts.
Each week a new artist and/or writer will be presented.
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Today:
4 loads of laundry done, including clean bedding. This will be bliss tonight.
organized closet, calendar, mind.
talks of gender roles, gay marriage, and society; figuring out I’m pretty damn stubbornly liberal, sometimes.
someone really smart telling me I’m not a greedy, unfeeling jerk for wanting to be a lawyer and wanting to make money — and actually taking steps to...
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“You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men....”
– Virginia Woolf Professions for Women
lsat: done.
