Three Requests

[browngirl]

Three things I've been meaning to ask for for awhile:

1) Magazines. If you have some magazines lying around that could be useful, and you see me in person and/or have my mailing address, please send or give them to me? I am collecting magazines for my workplace (I directly oversee one waiting room and pass by three others on my way to and from work everyday). If I can I'll pay back the postage or at least send you something nice.

2) Poems. It's National Poetry Month, and at the end of the month April 30 is Poem In Your Pocket Day! I would love it if you'd suggest some short poems for me to print out and give out on that day, and feel free to ask me for a poem in return!

3) I haven't done a voice post in awhile. What should I sing next? (Please remember I'm singing without accompaniment and need something I know pretty well.)

\o/ Thank you in advance!

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i use and recommend "prayer" by galway kinnell:

Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*holds this poem like a star* Thank you.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

ooh, lovely

Useful

[hazelchaz]

I have some various old magazines. What would be useful?

Re: Useful

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

I'm looking for magazines that 1) don't have disturbing or explicit imagery 2) are relatively accessible to laypeople (no technical journals for a particular field) 3)are in good condition. Children's magazines would be especially prized.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Hm. Are ex-library magazines OK?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

As long as they have covers and pages! Thank you!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*beams* You did. I was thinking more of specific poems -- I wanted to see what particular things people would suggest (or even write!)

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I don't have magazines subscriptions, but I do get magazines from a couple of museums and the Cornell Ornithology Lab. Do you think at least some of the people in your waiting room would like those? I know I'd be delighted to find something other than old issues of People or Time, but I'm peculiar.

I'd be glad to mail them to you (no need to reimburse me) so you can decide whether they're appropriate.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I think so! My goal is to provide things other than old issues of People or Time or WOmen's Heteronormative Fortnightly. Thank you so much!

[gosling.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of copies of Ms., and some of Scientific American and Smithsonian. (My mother likes to get us magazine subscriptions.)

I also may unexpectedly have time for lunch today. Call my cellphone. :-)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Lunch was so awesome! Thank you! *huggles y

And I would love all those magazines. I'd certainly rather put out Ms. Than Women's Heteronormative Fortnightly.

[ron_newman]

I have a huge number of old magazines I need to get rid of. How many do you want?

New Yorker
New York Review of Books
MIT Technology Review
Mother Jones
Atlantic Monthly

I can deliver them to you by bike; it would not make sense to mail them.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

A couple dozen? Enough to fill a shopping bag or two? Where shall we meet? (And, thank you. :))

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Got no mags, don't reckon. No song suggestion either, tho I look fwd to hearing the next one. :)

Here's a poem I just printed out and plunked up at work--- it was in one of my poem-a-day feeds for Nat'l P Month:


Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied By Rain


Lie down, you are horizontal.
Stand up, you are not.

I wanted my fate to be human.

Like a perfume
that does not choose the direction it travels,
that cannot be straight or crooked, kept out or kept.

Yes, No, Or
— a day, a life, slips through them,
taking off the third skin,
taking off the fourth.

The logic of shoes becomes at last simple,
an animal question, scuffing.

Old shoes, old roads —
the questions keep being new ones.
Like two negative numbers multiplied by rain
into oranges and olives.


– Jane Hirshfield

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh, "Yes, No, Or" should be italic.

[jadelennox]

various National Geographics useful? several from the last few years, none of them ancient.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Absolutively. Thank you, bright eyes, and we should have lunch again soon!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I have several months of New Yorker from when I briefly subscribed to it. Would those be good?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, and thank you very much! (Besides it should be fun hearing the Bostonians snark about the New Yorker. :)

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I shall send some magazines along this week!

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

As for a song, one of my favorites is "The Parting Glass."

And a poem I saw recently and liked was this on the Poetry Foundation website.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Higgledy Piggledy
National Poetry
Month comes in April
Of every year.

Toss off some verses
In whimsical meter
Sonets, Sestinas,
Or Limericks clear.

There you go. An extemporaneous effort from me to you. Share it with whomever you wish.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marcelo/]

Two fragments:

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

Robinson Jeffers, "Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)

There are many dead in the brutish desert
who lie uneasy
among the scrub in this landscape of half-wit
stunted ill-will. For the dead land is insatiate
and necrophilous. The sand is blowing about still.

Hamish Henderson, Elegies for the dead in Cyrenaica (fragment)

And a complete one:

Everything We Do

by Peter Meinke

Everything we do is for our first loves
whom we have lost irrevocably
who have married insurance salesmen
and moved to Topeka
and never think of us at all.

We fly planes & design buildings
and write poems
that all say Sally I love you
I'll never love anyone else
Why didn't you know I was going to be a poet?

The walks to school, the kisses in the snow
gather as we dream backwards, sweetness with age:
our legs are young again, our voices
strong and happy, we're not afraid.
We don't know enough to be afraid.

And now
we hold (hidden, hopeless) the hope
that some day
she may fly in our plane
enter our building read our poem

And that night, deep in her dream,
Sally, far in darkness, in Topeka,
with the salesman lying beside her,
will cry out
our unfamiliar name.

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I love these fragments. :) I like the poem -- it's intriguing -- but/and I want Sally's answer. I wonder what poetry her insurance salesman might in their off hours, and/or what poetry she sings to herself.

[shirebound]

This is one of my favorite poems:

The Measure of Life
by Marjorie Wright Miller


The elm lives on for half a hundred years
Or more, a rose but a single June.
No need to wish it were not so, tears
of regret can never change the tune
of earth's mysterious song: she measures time
in beauty, not by the numbered hours she lasts.
Not by heights to which a tree can climb,
but by the sheltering shade it casts.

The smallest flower that breathes but a day
distills its fragrance into sweet perfume.
Garbs itself with grace and bright array-
exquisite, brief intensity in bloom.
Whether the notes of life are short or long,
from end to end what matters is the song.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so lovely! *dances along* Thank you!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

one of my favourite short poems:

I Hear a River thro’ the Valley Wander

I hear a river thro’ the valley wander
Whose water runs, the song alone remaining.
A rainbow stands and summer passes under.

-- Trumbull Stickney

[cereta.livejournal.com]

If you can remind me in late May, we have a ton of Time and Entertainment Weekly lying around.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

It's late May, she said hopefully?

I have lots of magazines...

[dlanznar.livejournal.com]

Hi

I have a lot of magazines to get rid of, which I plan to recycle, but if someone else can use and enjoy them that would be better. So if you're still looking for magazines I can get some or all to you - hopefully deliver them rather than ship, if you're in the Boston area. Includes: Wired, the Atlantic, Harper's, Harvard Alumni magazine - several years of each.

David (dlanznar at rcn.com)

Re: I have lots of magazines...

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I emailed you back, hopefully successfully. :)