PUCPR Book Club

Buenos dias a todos! El Poetry and Music Slam se acerca! Estan todos cordialmente invitados! Habra presentacion de poesia y musica, y habra un ambiente de creacion artistica para que todos podamos compartir y disfrutar! La actividad sera el 28 de abril de 2016 a las 5pm en el Teatro Monseñor Vicente Murga en la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico, recinto de Ponce. La entrada es totalmente gratis!

I acknowledge that it's a bit late, but this is a more unofficial announcement (the official one has already been sent to the members). Tomorrow at 10:30, on McManus 103, there will be a Book Club reunion concerning three short works. The Raid by John Steinbeck, In Flander's Fields by John McCrae, and The man with the beautiful eyes by Charles Bukowsky. If any person who's liked this page is interested in becoming a member, or attending to be a part of the dynamic, please do. You're all welcomed. Thank you and good night!

So I may have found another favorite poet; Anne Sexton. Here is one of her poems that really stayed with me.

The Abortion by Anne Sexton

Somebody who should have been born
is gone.

Just as the earth puckered its mouth,
each bud puffing out from its knot,
I changed my shoes, and then drove south.

Up past the Blue Mountains, where
Pennsylvania humps on endlessly,
wearing, like a crayoned cat, its green hair,

its roads sunken in like a gray washboard;
where, in truth, the ground cracks evilly,
a dark socket from which the coal has poured,

Somebody who should have been born
is gone.

the grass as bristly and stout as chives,
and me wondering when the ground would break,
and me wondering how anything fragile survives;

up in Pennsylvania, I met a little man,
not Rumpelstiltskin, at all, at all...
he took the fullness that love began.

Returning north, even the sky grew thin
like a high window looking nowhere.
The road was as flat as a sheet of tin.

Somebody who should have been born
is gone.

Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward...this baby that I bleed.

Hey guys! Remember tomorrow we have a book club meeting at 10:30 am in Mc 103. There will be pizza and refreshments. See you there!

Quote of the Day:

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

- Oscar Wilde