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Women's History is Every Month: The Women Who Won the Right to Vote; The Black Texas Congresswoman Who Took On Nixon; What's Going On With The...

The Women Who Won the Right to Vote

The Women Who Won the Right to Vote

The Women Who Won the Right to Vote A new book pairs vibrantly painted portraits of early women’s-rights activists by Maira Kalman with text by Sena...

The Black Texas Congresswoman Who Took On Nixon

The Black Texas Congresswoman Who Took On Nixon

The Black Texas Congresswoman Who Took On Nixon Nick Fouriezos Barbara Jordan paved the way for women like Sen. Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams.

What's Going On With The NYC Women's March This Year?

What's Going On With The NYC Women's March This Year?

What's Going On With The NYC Women's March This Year? Your guide to all the events and all the alleged drama.

Why Do We Silence Black Girls and Women Who are Survivors of Sexual Violence?

Why Do We Silence Black Girls and Women Who are Survivors of Sexual Violence?

Why Do We Silence Black Girls and Women Who are Survivors of Sexual Viol... Felice León Today, conversations about sexual violence and harassment towards women have infiltrated popular culture, the ne...

From Schoolteacher Trainee to Oscar Buzz: Meet Yalitza Aparicio

From Schoolteacher Trainee to Oscar Buzz: Meet Yalitza Aparicio

From Schoolteacher Trainee to Oscar Buzz: Meet Yalitza Aparicio Carly Stern This indigenous woman from rural Mexico appeared on film for the first time in Roma - and is earning global reco...

"This Much and More" by Djuna Barnes

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend                                         January 12, 2019   This Much and More   Djuna Barnes

If my lover were a comet Hung in air, I would braid my leaping body In his hair. Yea, if they buried him ten leagues Beneath the loam, My fingers they would learn to dig And I’d plunge home!            This poem is in the public domain.  About This Poem   “This Much and More” was published in All-Story Cavalier Weekly on September 4, 1915.   Djuna Barnes was born on June 12, 1892, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Her works include The Book of Repulsive Women (Bruno Chap Books, 1915) and Nightwood (Faber and Faber, 1937). She died on June 18, 1982, in New York City.