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Fwd: Finally a woman poet of our timeFwd: Poem of the Day: A Hymn to the Evening

Posted by Patricia Brody on October 19, 2020 at 4:50 pm

Her time/ our time
assignment for Poetry Workshop:Seeking Your Voice:

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From: Patricia Brody <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 1:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: Finally a woman poet of our timeFwd: Poem of the Day: A Hymn
to the Evening
To: ALICIA OSTRIKER <[email protected]>, Marilyn Hacker <
[email protected]>

Dear Mentoresses( as in Goddesses)
Thought you might appreciate this “ assignment “

to my current students….
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From: Patricia Brody <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 1:16 AM
Subject: Finally a woman poet of our timeFwd: Poem of the Day: A Hymn to
the Evening
To: Barnard Poets

Our time/ her time:
Long ago and now.

What do we think ( not knee jerk but with our ears eyes AND nerves)
)

of her diction, rhyme and her HER HER voice.
Is she not writing from her own pen , heart, ink ,blood & brain?

We will read this poem together when we meet next week.

NEW PROMPT OPTION:
Evenings are particularly poignant & beautiful right now— at the dying
near-end of the old year. The Fall.
Light is dark gold.
Sun sets so fast.
Leaves 🍁 blood red,
old tree-blood, brown.

Write your own HYMN to EVENING.
USE WHOLE LINES, PHRASES an image or single word to write your hymn— after
Phillis Wheatley.

This also gives you permission to try to write in someone else’s voice— …

Enjoy the experience!
Until soon
Patricia

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Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain;
Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s wing,
Exhales the incense of the blooming spring.
Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes,
And through the air their mingled music floats.
Through all the heav’ns what beauteous dies are spread!
But the west glories in the deepest red:
So may our breasts with ev’ry virtue glow,
The living temples of our God below!
Fill’d with the praise of him who gives the light,
And draws the sable curtains of the night,
Let placid slumbers sooth each weary mind,
At morn to wake more heav’nly, more refin’d;
So shall the labours of the day begin
More pure, more guarded from the snares of sin.
Night’s leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes,
Then cease, my song, till fair *Aurora* rise.
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On this day in 1775, Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery, around the
age of 20, two years after she published her collection, *Poems on Various
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Check out my book, *Dangerous To Know (poems in the voices of forgotten
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Patricia Brody
Check out my book, *Dangerous To Know (poems in the voices of forgotten
women)* from SalmonPoetry
new writing, and other poetry-related events.

[email protected].

Exercise your Right to Write: *SEEKING YOUR VOICE: Women Writing Poetry &
Memoir*

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Visit my Blog at:
http://brodypoet.wordpress.com

—
Patricia Brody
Check out my book, *Dangerous To Know (poems in the voices of forgotten
women)* from SalmonPoetry
new writing, and other poetry-related events.

[email protected].

Exercise your Right to Write: *SEEKING YOUR VOICE: Women Writing Poetry &
Memoir*

NB: You can join now! Register at C. Bochar, Business Manager:
212-678-2416
http://our.barnard.edu/s/1133/16/wide.aspx?sid=1133&gid=1&pgid=3907&cid=13577&ecid=13577&crid=0&calpgid=2564&calcid=7072

Visit my Blog at:
http://brodypoet.wordpress.com

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