#Jennifer Givhan

[lifeinpoetry]

& how many mornings I missed, how many dark things I emptied myself for. My daughter is a graveyard by which I mean ripe for rebirthing. She pulls me from the beds I’ve buried & tells me if she is wise it’s because I’ve taught her by which she means I’ve held myself deep within myself all along.

— Jennifer Givhan, from "The Excavation," Belly to the Brutal

[biracy]

[Text ID: I carried darkness into the forest & sliced it out. End ID]

[theoffingmag]

Jennifer Givhan, "Baby Fever"

[emarie-stone]

"We have to get lost in the forests. We have to allow for the ugliness. We have to invite it, even. In the early drafts, your characters may reveal themselves to you in flashes, whispers, or echoes as you chase them through the trees. They might be lost in the mist themselves. It's OK not to see them yet through the fog. That's part of the process."

—Jennifer Givhan from "Writing Our Way Into (and out of) Dark Forests"

[likewedream]

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Review: River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan

Author: Jennifer GivhanPublisher: Blackstone PublishingReleased: October 4, 2022Received: Reedsy Wow! I grabbed River Woman, River Demon from Reedsy on an impulse because the cover looked SO good. I’m ecstatic to have taken the risk here because this was a phenomenal read. Written by Jennifer Givhan, this is not a book to miss out on. Eva thought she was making progress, moving on from the…

[geryone]

What books did you order for yourself?

I got Fall by Amy Newman, Muse Found in a Colonized Body by Yesenia Montilla, & Belly to the Brutal by Jennifer Givhan!!

[facinaoris]

...her rattlesnakes striking each other beneath her skirt... Jennifer Givhan

[fashionbooksmilano]

Power Mode The force of fashion

Emma McClendon

Skira,Milano TheMuseumatFIT, New York 2019, 120 pages, 25x30,5cm, ISBN 9788857239873

euro 35,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

The power of mode and the role of fashion from the 18th century to the present.

Power Mode: The Force of Fashion explores the multiple roles fashion plays in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging power dynamics within society. Published in tandem with The Museum at FIT exhibition of the same title, this book is divided thematically into five chapters that focus on the impact of military uniforms, suits, status dressing, resistance, and sex on the power of fashion. It takes an object-based approach to investigate how certain garments have come to be culturally associated with power, as well as how their meanings have evolved over time. It also examines how fashion designers have interpreted these stylistic archetypes―both to convey and to subvert power. Texts by exhibition curator Emma McClendon are joined by object-based essays from renowned fashion scholars Valerie Steele, Christopher Breward, Jennifer Craik, and Peter McNeil, as well as Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Robin Givhan. The book also includes an essay by Kimberly M. Jenkins on the intersection of race, fashion, and power. This collection of texts offers readers a variety of perspectives to help form a theoretical framework for considering the power dynamics inherent in fashion objects.

02/11/24

[brothersonahotelbed]

my mom's been asking for a happy poem all my life - jennifer givhan

[xibalbaa]

She's supposed to be a mother, but in some versions, she never grows beyond round-breasted girlhood. She bears the body for mothering but drowns before she's given the chance.

Givhan Jennifer. (2022). River woman, river demon. Black Stone publishing.

[lifeinpoetry]

Have you ever needed to lie flat as if dead against the rockmarked earth & listen to the voices licking against the sky your past shuffling through the leaves like a remix till you finally realize what your life has meant — & it aches? When the truth comes, let it come like jewelweed wilding beside the poison ivy. The antidote within our reach.

— Jennifer Givhan, from "Today I Learned the Word Mondegreen," Belly to the Brutal

[oatmilkenjoyer69]

March 2023 Media Breakdown

Movies:

Honor Among Lovers (1931) - Dorothy Arzner

One Week (1920) - Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

The Goat (1921) - Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair

Hard Luck (1921) - Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

The Stunt Woman (1996) - Ann Hui

Clue (1985) - Jonathan Lynn

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) - Amy Holden Jones

The Velvet Vampire (1971) - Stephanie Rothman

Inside Women Inside (1978) - Christine Choy & Cynthia Maurizio

Clotheslines (1982) - Roberta Cantow

La cigarette (1919) - Germaine Dulac

Falling Leaves (1921) - Alice Guy-Blanché

My Scientology Movie (2015) - John Dower

Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme

The Aristocats (1970) - Wolfgang Reitherman

The Matrix (1999) - Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski

Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

Cocaine Bear (2023) - Elizabeth Banks

Fruit of Paradise (1970) - Věra Chytilová

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018) - Arwen Curry

I’m Not There (2007) - Todd Haynes

65 (2023) - Scott Beck & Bryan Woods

TV Shows:

The Last of Us - Season 1 (2023)

Books: Completed

Bitterblue (2012) - Kristin Cashore

Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States (2018) - Bradley W. Hart

Blindsight (2006) - Peter Watts

Coraline (2002) - Neil Gaiman

Love on the Brain (2022) - Ali Hazelwood

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Far Wilder Magic (2022) - Allison Saft

Whose Names Are Unknown (2004, but was originally written in the 1930s. Steinbeck used her notes for WNAU to write The Grapes of Wrath, which is ultimately why this book wasn’t published until the 21st century.) - Sanora Babb

Books: In Progress

River Woman, River Demon (2022) - Jennifer Givhan | DNF

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society (2023) - Eleanor Janega | 41%

Trick Mirror (2019) - Jai Tolentino | 63%

This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | 30%

Top 3 Albums:

Melodrama - Lorde (2017) | pop/art pop

five seconds flat - Lizzie McAlpine (2022) | indie pop

Landmark - Hippo Campus (2017) | indie rock

Honorable Mention Album: So Much (For) Stardust (2023) - Fall Out Boy | pop rock/pop-punk

Crafts:

Worked on my scrap yarn blanket

[thedancemostofall]

My Mom’s Been Asking for a Happy Poem All My Life

Jennifer Givhan

So I fight all my destructive urges to give her one. A tiny globe filled with first snow I’m determined not to shatter across blacktop. Once, in the parking lot of Home Depot, we got into the blue van & everything felt off, uncanny, a fast-food wrapper from a place we hadn’t eaten, the dashboard dustier than it should’ve been. It took us a full thirty seconds, Mom in the driver’s seat though she hadn’t driven in years, me in the passenger, her ride- or-die since I was a little girl & one of her only friends in our strange & tiny border town, before we realized This isn’t our van! & we scrambled out, laughing our heads off & terrified the owner had called the cops on the women who look like twins carjacking them. We laugh about it every time we’re in a parking lot. That wasn’t our only Lucy & Ethel moment. There was the time we ordered what we thought was a roll from the drive- thru at Panera Bread, thinking we’d share it to split the calories but when the server handed it to us, the long, thin bread kept coming through the window. Mom & I thought baguette meant roll, it sounded petit. & although this poem’s only point is to make Mom happy it’s also to heal something in myself I hadn’t known needed a balm until the words hit the page, the way moms know, the way mine sent me flowers when the love of my young life got another girl pregnant & left me heartbroken & without a prom date, or when Mom gave me a gold nutcracker pin after the ballet recital when all the other girls got flowers & I shoved the beautiful pin back at her because it wasn’t flowers. And she said flowers wilt. I wanted to get you something that would last forever. Like her love. A poem can be sentimental because poems are filled with life, but sometimes we need to look our moms in the eyes & apologize. Or say thank you. Our moms remind us what it felt like when we were safe in their arms, even if our moms weren’t safe, even if they were only holding it together for us, to give us a happiness they’d created from thin air. Motherhood is made of that magic. I’m crying now. Mom, I promise, they’re happy tears.

[words-like-stones]

A poem can be sentimental   because poems are filled with life, but sometimes we need to look our moms in the eyes & apologize. Or say thank you. Our moms remind us what it felt like when we were safe in their arms, even if our moms weren’t safe, even   if they were only holding it together for us, to give us a happiness they’d created from thin air. Motherhood is made of that magic. I’m crying now. Mom, I promise, they’re happy tears.

[meeshnut]

River Woman River Demon; Jennifer Givhan

UGH this ebook edition is not formatted with page numbers and it says I’m almost 60% done with the book and I have barely started

Wouldn’t be an issue but I track my reading with StoryGraph by pages or percent blugh