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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post An Other Poem in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about nature and landscape
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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post Back on the Bus in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
“A bus covered in dust. This dirty, gray bank safe came crawling down the block, and folks nearly went to tears. There were passengers inside it already, too many, in fact… But the bus stopped. A few people got […]
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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post America the Monument in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
The Americans are a brave, industrious, and acute people; but they have hitherto given no indications of genius, and made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or character….Where are their […]
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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post We’ve been there… We’re returning in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
In the documentary “The Last Angel of History,” the statement is made that “black existence and science fiction are one in the same… we’re not believed… people don’t believe us.” I wrote this down immediately […]
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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post What I Mean to Say Is… in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
The goal I set for myself at the beginning of this semester was to more actively consider the practice of “doing language.” My conversations with Dr. McCoy have helpfully provided me with the metaphor of being “pl […]
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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post The “Cult” of Academia in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
This is my second time reading Big Machine, and I still find myself puzzling over the Washerwomen and the power they held over Ricky and his family, all while preaching a gospel of doubt: “Half the Bible is f […]
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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post White-Out Poetry: Water Moccasin’s Spiritual in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
In the poem “Floodsong 2: Water Moccasin’s Spiritual,” Douglas Kearney begins with the familiar refrain of the song “Wade in the Water,” which we have read and listened to many times in class. The first two refra […]
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Jennifer Galvao edited the blog post “Booboo the Fool” & Bloodchild in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
At his reading last night, Jamel Brinkley spoke about his experience as a person of color in a creative-writing workshop, in which his white peers spent twenty minutes puzzling over the term “Booboo the fool.” He […]
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Jennifer Galvao wrote a new blog post DO NOT WRITE IN VERNACULAR? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
This summer I was lucky enough to attend a creative writing conference where I participated in a class on writing dialogue. The instructor, a well-established author, outlined a couple of major “no-no’s” in writi […]
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Jennifer Galvao edited the blog post We Do Language in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.– Toni Morrison
I think the reason Toni Morrison’s epigraph stands out to me so much is the oddness of the p […] -
Jennifer Galvao joined the group American Studies 5 years, 2 months ago
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Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
A PRAYER FOR MY SON
(Poem as it appeared in The Tower, 1928)
Bid a strong ghost stand at the head
That my Michael may sleep sound,
Nor cry, nor turn in the bed
Till his morning meal come round;
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Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
The New Faces
(Poem as it appeared in The Tower, 1928)
If you, that have grown old, were the
first dead,
Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime
Should hear my living feet, nor would
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Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
YOUTH AND AGE
(Poem as it appeared in The Tower, 1928)
Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.
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Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
The Monthly Criterion (1922-1939)
The Criterion was a periodical edited by T.S. Eliot, an outlet for modernism and criticism in which Eliot could promoted what he called “the European idea — the idea of a comm […] -
Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
The Wheel
Through winter-time we call on spring,
And through the spring on summer call,
And when abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter’s best of all;
And after that there’s nothing good
Because the spr […] -
Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Meditations in Time of Civil War
I.
Ancestral houses
Surely among a rich man’s flowering
lawns,
Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
Life overflows without ambitious
pains;
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Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
The Dial
An American magazine, The Dial was published intermittently from 1840-1929 and took several different forms. In its first form, published from 1840-1844, The Dial served as the major p […]
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Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
The London Mercury
A monthly magazine first published in 1919, The London Mercury sought to fill a gap in the market of literary magazines. The editor described The London Mercury as unique among other […]
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Jennifer Galvao posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Seven Poems and a Fragment (1922)
All Souls’ NightSuggested by a Picture of a Black Centaur
Thoughts upon the Present State of the World
The New Faces
A Prayer for My Son
Cuchulain, the Girl, a […]
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