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Sculpture by Snail Scott

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i gotta remember this

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…you know damn well that sex isn’t ever enough for you. You want a brilliant mind that you can stimulate, but that you can also honestly look up to.

- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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In Armenian, when we want to say “damn you” or “go to hell”, we use the expressions "գրողը քեզ տանի" [groxy qez tani] or "գնա գրողի ծոցը" [gna (kori) groxi tsocy], which translate to “may the writer take you away” or “go and get lost in the writer’s embrace” in English. You might wonder, “Who is this writer-person?” and “Why is it considered a curse?”

According to traditional Armenian belief, Grox (the writer) is a spirit who records a person's deeds during their lifetime, determining the purity of their soul. This concept may be linked to Tir, the god of writing and literature in Armenian mythology. In some interpretations, it was believed that anyone whose name Tir wrote in his notebook would die. This is where the curse "may the writer take you" originates.

During the Christian era, Grox was mistakenly represented as a Christian spirit who no longer recorded human deeds but instead determined each person's fate, inscribing it on their foreheads. Over time, Grox came to be depicted as an evil spirit, sometimes identified with Satan. Thus, the curse "get lost in Grox’s embrace," which originally signified death, took on a more negative connotation. However, this was not originally characteristic of Grox in Armenian traditional beliefs.

So, if you want to get creative with your curses, instead of saying “go to hell,” you can use the phrase “get lost in the writer’s embrace”.

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It's National Poets Day, and to celebrate, I want to highlight some poems I adore as they're read by the poet that wrote them:

Maya Angelou reading Still I Rise

Mary Oliver reading Wild Geese

Olivia Gatwood reading Aileen Wuornos Takes a Lover Home

Danez Smith reading Alternate Heaven for Black Boys

Neil Hilborn reading OCD

Jack Gilbert reading Failing and Flying

Gwendolyn Brooks reading To the Young Who Want to Die

Ada Limón reading The Quiet Machine

José Olivarez reading Getting Ready to Say 'I Love You' to My Dad, It Rains

Natalie Diaz reading Post Colonial Love Poem

Hanif Abdurraqib reading When I Say That Loving Me Is Kind of Like Being a Chicago Bulls Fan

Marie Howe reading What the Living Do

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Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Held," originally published in 2003

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What do you think the soul is?

the colour red, notes from the underground, unspoken subtleties and unclear observations, what could have been, talking in the dark, a phantom and a reality, an honest voice, october, sending someone (in mind) away but them coming back, sitting all alone inside your head, bare benches, the thoughts behind your thoughts, infinity in a gaze & a pause, wanting something so much you end up stifling it, the despair you endured and the one you didn’t, currents of cool air, a brilliant sky clearer than metaphors, reading the lines on graves, the words you were silenced by

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Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

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sevdaliza !!

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“Soulmates”…she said.

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Kerry Egan, On Living

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