"Calling myself writer-in-residence at home has not gotten me out of a single chore."
— @jdickerson (Tweeted a few days ago, missed it until now. Bwahahaha.)
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Victoria Marinelli • Richmond, VA
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Emily Dickinson’s ‘I like a look of Agony,’ via inamidst.com.
I Like a look of Agony
I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it’s true—
Men do not sham Convulsion,
Nor simulate, a Throe—
The Eyes glaze once—and that is Death—
Impossible to feign
The Beads upon the Forehead
By homely Anguish strung.
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“I asked the published poets who are members to share a little bit of advice on writing those tricky little bio notes that poets are often asked to include with their poetry submissions to poetry journals and magazines. The response was overwhelming…”
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"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows, that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention."
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How forgotten is Kate Millett? When I stop by my local bookstore to pick up a copy of “Sexual Politics,” it doesn’t occur to me that I won’t find her seminal work, the one that all but launched the second wave of the women’s movement. It’s worth noting that this is not a chain, where a militant feminist author of the 1970s might not be missed…
“Let’s see … Kate Millett,” she taps at the computer and stares at the screen, searching the store’s database and, it appears from her puzzled expression, her own. “Wasn’t she a feminist?”
“Yes,” I say, and as if delivering an eighth-grade book report, I add, “Millett was very famous 30 years ago; a revolutionary…”
How is it that the great Kate Millett has nearly vanished from the collective consciousness?
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Salon People | Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist
[Note: If you wish, see also this article about her which was the cover story for Time Magazine three months before my birth, in 1970, the cover of which appears below, and/or these photos from 1992, when I first met Kate: Kate Millett’s Art Colony for Women - a set on Flickr]
Happy 74th birthday, Kate.
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