![]() Martin’s beloved Baby-Sitters Club series ![]() ![]() Theresa's business Citrine Ink connects communities through creativity and culture.A nostalgia-packed, star-studded anthology featuring contributors such as Kristen Arnett, Yumi Sakugawa, Myriam Gurba, and others exploring the lasting impact of Ann M. She has one poetry chapbook, Samhain & Such Inspired Junts her poetry has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and has appeared in Sampaguita Press and Immortal Verses. She graduated from the University of Memphis with honors in literature and a minor in both Italian and theater. Theresa Rozul Knowles is an educator, creative/content writer, and event's typewriter poet. Her 12 years of teaching has included cognitive skills training, coordinating special education programs, and teaching creative writing. Although Julia and Dante belong to different time periods and ethnicities, their art belongs to the immortal dramedy and comedy that is this Divine thing called living. Different roots still share the same Earth. Both of these writers’ work will speak to all of our identities. Her poem “You” is the best poem that unites socio-economic backgrounds through examining the semantics of how the word “you” is translated in English and Spanish. “But what had I in common with fractions? Julia and Dante right the world’s wrongs by using their stories to heal human existence’s brokenness by showing the ways we are all interconnected. Your first and failed exile in New York?”īy honoring origins & saving their teachings, Hopes, & questions through poetry. Julia’s last poem begins with a question for her parents: “Hold on tight! could be the first commandmentįor this life, and the second, Let it go!Īlvarez with lessons & Alighieri with “the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”ĭante’s last 33rd canto starts by speaking to the “Virgin mother, daughter of your Son.” The people you love, the places you love, De nada, folks.īecome the one you have been waiting for.” There were just too many quotable lines, so here’s a new poem made from different quotes in part dos. Julia’s second section is the largest with the most reflections on her life. On who we are - that much I’ve learned from trees.” “We have to live our natures out, the seed Roots are honored through every chapter of being re-rooted The middle of life divides time into seven trees: To honor Julia’s collection, here is a poem within poems, cause we are so meta like that at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Each of Julia’s poems contains three sections with ten lines, but each poem reads like free verse. Julia also puts her own spin on her poetry’s structure. Dante organizes his cantos with the poetic form he invented, terza rima. The Divine Comedy has “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso.” The Woman I Kept to Myself has “Seven Trees,” “The Woman I Kept to Myself,” and “Keeping Watch.” Dante has 33 cantos in each section (with the exception of the first with 34, but who’s counting?). ![]() Julia and Dante both wrote their poetry collection “in the middle of the journey of our life” where they found themselves “in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.” The first line of Dante’s Divine Comedy is referenced in the first section of Julia’s collection, fittingly called “Seven Trees,” with “Dante’s dark wood closing in on all sides, my last moments filled with a fear that takes my breath away.” Our breath is also taken away with Julia’s collection as readers will laugh and ugly-snail-trail-cry with these themes on the human condition, language, and the need to tell our stories as a way to understand our lives that can be felt no matter if one is a Dominican-American woman in the 21st century or a 13th-century, exiled Florentine man. Julia Alvarez’s line “our art can right what happens in the world” can be felt throughout her poetry collection, The Woman I Kept to Myself, particularly as the structure and themes mirror Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy with her own personal twist.
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