Joanna C. Migdal
There Should Be So Much More (A Cento)
Between you and a bowl of oranges I lie nude
except for the orange ribbons tucked in my hair.
From the window, a mango moon climbs the dark blue sky
and returns to the mountains like a great weight.
I begin to fear the darkness.
Amid small globes of lamps full of orange light,
I will glimpse you getting dressed and disappearing again.
O, there should be so much more
of how terrible orange is…and life.
Credits: Virginia Hamilton Adair, Anne Sexton, Jane Kenyon, WS Merwin, Wislawa Szymborska, Vladimir Nabokov, Joanna C. Migdal, Frank O’Hara
A Woman Who Writes Feels Too Much — Anne Sexton (A Cento)
It’s four in the afternoon, time still for a poem.
I want to choose words that even you would have to be changed by,
Words that are luminous in the dark.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
A silence opens
And I shall stand here like a shadow under the great balanced day.
Why there is still all this space inside me, I don’t know.
I cannot say what loves have come and gone.
Tonight as always there is no one to share my thoughts.
I’ve a woman sick for passion,
But barely able to breathe or achoo
In my congested cosmos of agony,
Pang after pang again and again.
But the mind is an enchanting thing.
Now for a little I have fed on loneliness,
But I am completely nourished.
I have wanted other things more than lovers.
After all, ecstasy can’t be constant.
What a world of awkwardness!
I will try to be nonviolent one more day.
Life is not a dream as dark as sages say;
It gives a lovely light,
Leaving our shadows still to be with us.
So, let evening come,
With the damn wonder of it.
I dwell in Possibility.
Yes, for that most of all.
Credits: Phyllis McGinley, Adrienne Rich, Eleanor Wylie, Emma Lazarus, Amy Clampitt, Louise Bogan, Wislawa Symborska, Edna st.Vincent Millay, Chu Shu-chen, Amy Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Mina Loy, Christina Rossetti, Marianne Moore, May Sarton, Jane Kenyon, Yu Hsuan-chi,. Kay Boyle,. Lorinne Niedecker, Dorothy Parker, Muriel Rukeyser, Charlotte Bronte, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jane Kenyan, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, Denise Levertov
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| Brittany Vogel is an award-winning, New Jersey-based painter known for her bold color and beautifully expressive line. Her Powerful Women series has struck a chord well beyond the gallery walls, earning inclusion in multiple exhibitions including a Monmouth Museum x Smithsonian Exhibition and coverage in numerous press outlets, including Yahoo! News and feature spreads in TapInto and 07030 Magazine.
Vogel's work lives in public spaces as much as private collections. She created a 12-foot interactive mural, Suffragists Marching, in the Columbus Circle subway station, and has delivered artist talks at the Bruce Museum and the Hoboken Historical Museum. Her achievements include the competitive Merit Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York and features in three consecutive Monmouth Museum Annual Juried Exhibitions. She has mounted solo shows of both her Powerful Women and Order vs. Chaos series in New York City and New Jersey.
Whether she's covering a subway wall or a canvas, Vogel's aim is the same: command attention from across the room, then reward a closer look with a rich, layered story worth lingering over.
Brittany continues to paint, exhibit, and expand the Powerful Women series from her studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, adding new women and new stories to the collection.
For additional information, please visit www.BrittanyVogelArt.com.
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