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November 15, 2012 11:48 am

britticisms:

Snapshots from the press and members’ opening of designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s Bivouac at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Above, felt and fabric “cloud” hanging wall sculptures.

11:44 am
poetrysociety: These men, this particular three in brown Witnessed by birds will keep the scene and say By their configuration with the trees, The small bridge, the red houses and the fire, What place, what time, what morning occasion Sent them into the wood…John Berryman, from “Winter Landscape” based on Pieter Brueghel, Hunters in the Snow (1565)

poetrysociety:

These men, this particular three in brown
Witnessed by birds will keep the scene and say
By their configuration with the trees,
The small bridge, the red houses and the fire,
What place, what time, what morning occasion

Sent them into the wood…

John Berryman, from “Winter Landscape” based on Pieter Brueghel, Hunters in the Snow (1565)

11:40 am
poetsorg: Valerie & T. S. Eliot by Angus McBean, Bromide print, 1957 Valerie Eliot, who married the poet T. S. Eliot near the end of his life and steadfastly guarded his literary legacy for nearly half a century, died on Friday in London. She was 86. The Eliot estate announced her death. Mrs. Eliot, who was almost 38 years younger than her husband, had been his secretary for several years at the publishing house Faber & Faber when they married in 1957. By all accounts it was a happy marriage. Like many who considered Eliot one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, she had admired his poetry since she was a teenager; she had sought out the job at Faber & Faber specifically because he was there.

poetsorg:

Valerie & T. S. Eliot by Angus McBean, Bromide print, 1957

Valerie Eliot, who married the poet T. S. Eliot near the end of his life and steadfastly guarded his literary legacy for nearly half a century, died on Friday in London. She was 86.

The Eliot estate announced her death.

Mrs. Eliot, who was almost 38 years younger than her husband, had been his secretary for several years at the publishing house Faber & Faber when they married in 1957. By all accounts it was a happy marriage. Like many who considered Eliot one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, she had admired his poetry since she was a teenager; she had sought out the job at Faber & Faber specifically because he was there.

November 1, 2012 7:34 pm
"People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances without own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

—

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
7:31 pm
7:27 pm
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

—

Jane Austen

Preach, sister.

7:22 pm
somewhere i have never travelled

My favorite poem, was read at my wedding.

7:19 pm
Hamlet: Newsfeed Edition

I look for excuses to show this to people because I think its so funny…not enough people have read Hamlet:-(

7:17 pm

I miss Japanese food.

6:38 pm

Hamlet Facebook/Tumblr Projects

Having high school students retell Hamlet through the Facebook or Tumblr of one of the characters was an awesome desicion, grading has been a blast.