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“I am beautiful,
especially when I’m angry.
When there are no words,
and I am my purest form of rage.
They tell us that women
should cry quietly,
and birth their anger in secret.
But I will rain over everything near,
unforgivingly loud,
my beauty is in my angry rebellion.”—Key Ballah (via keywrites)

Jul 30, 2014803 notes

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Jul 30, 20141 note

#writing beats #poetry #baths

Men and the Word “Feminism”

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Men and the Word “Feminism”

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BY GREG LETELLIER

A few months ago, I saw Junot Diaz speak at my school. I was pumped, because Diaz is like the Jimi Hendrix of fiction right now. His art is blazingly original, his stories are unforgettable, and, like Hendrix, he turns…

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Jul 28, 20144 notes

#feminism #luna luna #sexism #equal rights #human rights

“A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.”—

Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatniks)

#LOOK AT THE FUCKING BELL JAR

Jul 23, 201457,239 notes

VENT is a safe space for women to share their experiences, frustrations, and challenges as women in the world without the need to apologize: noapologies-vent.com.

Jul 21, 2014

#women #feminism #vent #noapologies

Jul 20, 20143 notes

#Juliet #poetry #sarah certa

“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give it back as good as I give.”—Sylvia Plath (via alonesomes)

Jul 15, 20141,705 notes

RED PAPER HEART: e-version now available!

zoocakepress:

Sarah Certa, the wildly talented author of RED PAPER HEART, has requested we make her chapbook available for download.

Here it is:

RED PAPER HEART

RAWR!

Jul 15, 2014

#sarah certa #red paper heart #poetry #zoo cake press

yespoetry:

Lisa Marie Basile is the founding editor of Luna Luna Mag and the micropress Patasola Press. She co-edits Diorama Journal. Her work can be seen in Best American Poetry, PANK Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown and others. She is the author of the chapbooks Andalucia and …

Jul 14, 201451 notes

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Split Lip is an online literary journal that aims to introduce new literature, music, fine art and film to modern pop culture and progressive academia.

[excerpt from “Bruises”]

If Victoria’s Secret knew everything about sexy
they wouldn’t be selling bras. Just white t-shirts
and mango-flavored chap-stick. Movies of men cooking dinner while outside
an end-of-August storm creeps over the horizon like a bruise
on your spine you didn’t know was there but like
to press up against because it makes you feel like you’ve done
something…

[excerpt from “Hello Hello”]

I want to choke on something beautiful

and then spit it back up

into the mouths of strangers on the street

so I can feel like a good citizen in my community.

I wonder if I have a disease.

I don’t care if I have a disease.

This is me on a Sunday.

Hello hello I’m a person in the world and I love you.

Hello hello I’m too stupid to say anything about war except

I love that millions of you have died inside me.

Jul 1, 20141 note

#sarah certa #poetry #split lip magazine