Vermeer
~Wislawa Szymborska
So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum
in painted quiet and concentration
keeps pouring milk day after day
from the pitcher to the bowl
the World hasn’t earned
the world’s end.
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- Rebel Girl takes her nom-de-plume from Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, labor activist and subject of the Woody Guthrie song, "Rebel Girl." In real life, she is Lisa Alvarez, a mild-mannered professor of English at Irvine Valley College and co-director of the summer writers workshops at the Community of Writers. Her stories and essays have appeared most recently in the "American Book Review," Green Mountains Review," "Santa Monica Review" and in the anthology "Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America" (Norton). She teaches creative writing at Irvine Valley College. You can contact her via ldalvarez@juno.com
3 comments:
Ok, so now I think I have to get myself a collection of her poetry!
the other L
Glad you liked it - I love what she does here...
Yes, she will not be forgotten!
I had to retrieve an assignment from Peter Morrison's Wr. 13, which instructed us to play off the line, "Forgive us, far-off wars, for bringing flowers home," from "Under One Small Star" in _View with a Grain of Sand_, available at:
Love from the other W
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