Feb
15
Lingerpost Issue # 9 is LIVE!
Come view the wonderful poetry & art of…
Kendal Alexis Adams
Simon Anton Diego Baena
Bruce Bond
Lana Bella
Philip Dacey
Tonya Eberhard
Rich Glinnen
Ira Joel Haber
Suzanne LaGrande
Jesse Millner
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb
Meghan Sterling
Susan Tally
Richard Vyse
Heather Whited
Christopher Woods
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Jun
08
Summer submissions!
Mar
19
– Edith Södergran (1892-1923)
You looked for a flower
and found a fruit.
You looked for a well
and found a sea.
You looked for a woman
and found a soul –
you are disappointed.
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At sixteen Edith Sodergran found out she had the same illness of which her father died. But despite her tuberculosis, she maintained spiritual health and strength that made her friend Hagar Olsson say of her: ”In that fragile woman’s body lived a burning activity and willpower that, if liberated, as in the shape of a commander-in-chief, could overturn worlds.” Even when she neglected her appearance and became the “crazy girl” for the villagers of Raivola she kept writing. Even when a villager killed her beloved cat, she kept writing. Even when villagers mocked the way she walked, the way she stood still and stared silently up at the sky, she kept writing.
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