poem talking about how "my muse" sits forlorn and in the cold and "I" only listen to her when I am unhappy
My Muse by Stevie Smith
author talking about how she saw Medusa once and didn't turn to stone like how she expected to, she was a fish that escaped to a magical reed and then at the end realizes she is Medusa
The Muse as Medusa by May Sarton
understanding the Muse once the author is older because now she has more wisdom than before
Of the Muse by May Sarton
talking about her husband and bringing her a glass of water and blue lizard
Of the Dressing-Room by Medbh McGuckian
Women writing about their own experiences, how she was defined as white before female, location is a big part of your "luck"
Notes toward a Politics of Location by Adrienne Rich
Women need to write more, even if they can't write well they need to do it more often
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
a few lines of poetry written over and over again in different ways
Patriarchal Poetry by Gertrude Stein
girl who hates her sister and has an angry uncle/grandpa and eventually moves to the post office where she works to get away from her crazy family
Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty
trying to find out about her historical background, she talks about how her mother found her "garden" and how now she is finding her own
In Search of our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
very straight forward and radical and basically tells women to write and asks them why they don't and a lot of it is because of men who hold too much power
The Laugh of Medusa by Helene Cixous
talks about erotic in different ways and how it doesn't always mean sex but can be found in other ways
The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
school girls are obsessed with their teacher's breasts, but it's not just that. they are fascinated by her as a whole and I think it is because they are going through puberty and their teacher represents this vision of how they one day see themselves
Madame Alaird's Breasts by Dionne Brand
3 sisters receive a doll house and they are so happy and hold this power bc all of the kids at school want to see it and so they show them in groups of 2 and exclude 2 sisters because their mom is essentially a housekeeper and their father is in jail but the youngest sister shows the 2 sisters one day and their aunt finds out and yells at them but they are happy they were able to see it even for a short period of time
The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield
the author is talking about her lover's wife and how she is the one that has his love and she doesn't, she fades but his wife will always be there
For My Lover, Returning to his Wife by Anne Sexton
the 2 girls and 1 boy, one of the girls gets raped and eventually killed and her best friend has to live with this for the rest of her life
The Girl by Sharon Olds
talking about an individual or shared sex and how people can be connected by just sex if they don't love each other
Sex Without Love by Sharon olds