Hey friends,

So this blog has been dead for awhile - just wanted to let y'all know I started a new one:

http://thistenderwind.blogspot.com

You can expect poems, essays, ramblings, literary criticism & other miscellany. Would love to see you there!

Love,
Talia

"During the Communist era, parents needed special permission form to give a child a name that does not have a name day on the Czech calendar. Since 1989, parents have had the right to give their child any name they wish, provided it is used somewhere in the world and is not insulting or demeaning. However, the common practice is that the most birth ( Read more... )

Dudes, dudes ( Read more... )

Trembling and sullen ( Read more... )

This is where my blogging has moved mostly! http://apoemadayfromharvard.blogspot.comRead more... )

off to Iceland on Sunday - a mere 2 days! I am excited to go off and acquire a whole new set of experiences in a country I've never seen, whose language I don't peak -- go stare at geothermal vents and pull rhubarb from the cold, damp earth. I'm bringing Icelandic sagas, Buddhist scriptures, "East of Eden" and a whole host more, a few sweaters, ( Read more... )

Dear Everyone ( Read more... )

Retrospectives are stupid, especially of monumental years ( Read more... )

what a surprise on this blog.
thanks for reminding me of this song _twoheadedgirl"In comes you, not the same person I knew ( Read more... )

Could I have picked a more pretentious post title? Maybe not. Even so though, today I got out of class in Harvard's Semitic Museum and there was a streak of skywriting turning yellow against the setting sun. To my left the herbarium with five million dried plants in glass held its quiet, wreathed heavily in snow. I'm translating a sonnet cycle by ( Read more... )