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Kropotkin57: The End of March
Elizabeth Bishop, 1975
cureforpain1993: elizabeth bishop, "filling station" (1979)
twc_org: New in the magazine: "Listening to the Work: In Praise of Listening."
"Writing takes time . . . what Elizabeth Bishop once described as 'a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.'"
Read "Listening to the Work" in the magazine:
riana977353361: Bishop O'Connell vs. Elizabeth Seton - Virginia High School Softball
heyAbbieK: Why the extraneous plant?
Why the taboret?
Why, oh why, the doily?
Tell us, Elizabeth Bishop. (The recording of her reading is so charming.)
on_opera: The death of the Bishop of Brindisi (Menotti) Madrid 1982 Elizabeth Bainbridge, Richard Cross
..Concerts,Menotti
PLEASE RETWEET
BELOVASHAWKEYE: Kate... Katherine Elizabeth (what are you, her mother?), Kathryn (big no), Katie (don't call her that unless you wanna d-word early from an arrow.), Kit-Kat (not a chocolate), Kathy (what?), Lizzie (that's... new), Liz (pls stop), Hawkeye (remember that) Bishop
MarjHahneWriter: This poem by John Murillo.
DISTILL: Feisty Spirits and "Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop" b...
RAHMArainsONme: “and nobody knows what will happen Monday”—Elizabeth Bishop
BELOVASHAWKEYE: Kate in everywhere because i'm annoyed, marvel! I'm annoyed! You did this to Clint and I refuse you do it again to Katherine Elizabeth Bishop, Greatest Archer In The World!
Benwilliams404: Favorite villanelle:
1. Dylan’s Thomas “Do not go gentle”
2. From Killing Eve
3. Elizabeth Bishop “one art”
seaontheland: The Christ I have given to Rolex, for war, is No.1, that is the optimum place for tax in any country, for Patricia Violet Bishop and EIIR power of Queen Elizabeth II, ...
Ma92839164Robyn: I'll Say Amen - Grace & Meda Ellis, Elizabeth Bishop, Maria Bramble - Th...
Ana_lves: Elizabeth Bishop with her cat Minnow by Louise Crane. 1938
seaontheland: and my mother was married to Edward Alfred Bishop already, when they met, and it is only a Crown lawyer saying Her Majesty, the Queen Elizabeth II was a family member who was concerned for the well being of the band member, John Lennon, who was there; ...
StandardKenya: Details are emerging that Bishop Elizabeth Wanjiru Githigi, who died under unclear circumstances, had expressed fear over her life.
ZeeshanJaanam: If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one.
―Elizabeth Bishop
JordanOfLydda: Protestant Bishop of Waterford writing to the Principal Secretary of State of Elizabeth I, 1579:
(In Waterford there is) 'Massing in every corner' and 'There is no difference betwixt the clergy and laity here' he calls them 'stiff-necked, stubborn, papistical and incorrigible'
poemakontsa: Good morning with poets and cats!
Elizabeth Bishop
naomi7444: Remove the first and last line of a poem to make it better (Elizabeth Bishop)
roseyhyacinth: The shooting stars in your black hair
in bright formation
are flocking where,
so straight, so soon?
-- Come, let me wash it in this big tin basin,
battered and shiny like the moon.
-excerpt from the poem The Shampoo, written by Elizabeth Bishop (1955)
MahmoodAbohamed: "We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship,
although it meant the end of travel.
Although it stood stock-still like cloudy rock
and all the sea were moving marble."
... "The Imaginary Iceberg"
Elizabeth Bishop
cursedsapphics: elizabeth bishop, i’d blow up a mountain for you <3
cdendy76: Poem for a rainy day ...
Song for the Rainy Season - Poem by Elizabeth Bishop
MontiniCatholic: May the spirit of our Founder, John Baptist de LaSalle be in their midst. Please keep them in your prayers next week.
Elizabeth Beirne '24, Samantha Bishop '23, Fabian Deleon '24, Marin Ferris '24, Hailey Goetz '24, Samuel Hemmersmeier '24, Mariella Herrmann '24 . . .
EcoEvoGal: Well, you got me there, Elizabeth Bishop Bot.
aboredlittleboy: a really interesting poem by regan good. elizabeth bishop vibes
SallyBayley1: The March of the Solar Panels positioned during the flooding season: you can hear more about life onboard Cerian alongside meditations on Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake & Franz Kafka & the role of private symbols & wounds:
ac_haver: By Elizabeth Bishop
ITYSLThePoem: Elizabeth Bishop
anindita: Just realized I get this from my mum who forwarded correspondence from *her* PhD advisor!
“A PhD in Literature-Wonderful! Elizabeth Bishop is one of my favorite poets. I've read all 99 of those she wrote. I especially liked "Maps"; it is so playful.”
bre_dah: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop.
Still I rise by Maya Angelou .
BELOVASHAWKEYE: GOOD NIGHT ESPECIALLY TO KATHERINE ELIZABETH BISHOP
unusual_whales: Senator Elizabeth Warren has said she doesn’t think multibillion-dollar banks should get an increase in federal insurance without tighter regulation.
NEOSELCA: Bishop Elizabeth Eaton Issues Statement on Anti-Transgender Legislation
atwulf: poems, novels… all art forms open the eyes to see the old in new light.
elizabeth bishop’s the map
profdgd: To hell with it we’re just spending next semester reading Elizabeth Bishop.
SamRasnake: “Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?” - Elizabeth Bishop
Photo: Dawn, Hatteras, Outer Banks
sagar_tetali: "The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster."
Elizabeth Bishop's One Art.
jaxwendy: And finally, there is a short personal coda on having a career in poetry and then losing it, built around a reading of the best love/loss poem of all time, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"
Adry_Grisel: De Elizabeth Bishop.
friaranthony62: a semi-protestantised tradition. Shall we forget that Elizabeth would have no married Anglican “bishop” at her deathbed. Likewise, such a supposed Anglican tradition is an offense to the Orthodox, who truly have a rite flowing from the Apostles. To put them on the same level
BELOVASHAWKEYE: Katherine Elizabeth Bishop, I love you so much
SallyBayley1: A podcast for mental relaxation & creative rejuvenation; artist Ilaria Mancini draws to every episode. For writers/readers & those in search of mental expansion: the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop/Blake/Kafka:
ojalart: “I’m not very fond of poetry readings. I’d much rather read the book. I know I’m wrong. I’ve only been to a few poetry readings I could bear.” —Elizabeth Bishop
acocotas: And now back to rereading Elizabeth Bishop:
officialSCUSD: Yue will represent California at the national finals in May in Washington DC. Recitations from Alex included “Filling Station” by Elizabeth Bishop, “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman. His teacher is Jennifer Reynaga.
parisreview: “I’m not very fond of poetry readings. I’d much rather read the book. I know I’m wrong. I’ve only been to a few poetry readings I could bear.” —Elizabeth Bishop
JosiahWaweru8: Me was told they have never ever seen Anglican Bishops greeting Catholic Bishops one of Catholic Bishop in Jail neck strangled
Saint Pope John Paul 11 Saint Benedict XVI Saint Pope Francis the Queen Elizabeth 11 in Vatican City greeting welcoming one another.
USA on vision
LivingLutheran: Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a statement on anti-LGBTQIA+ bills that have recently been introduced in the United States.
LaurenceFoshee: If I get another boy cat, I'll probably name him Wallace; and if I get a girl cat, I'll probably name her Elizabeth (Stevens and Bishop)... Tradition's tradition, ya know? 8)
saclay187: Elizabeth Baptist Church
When God Says "No!" w/ Bishop Craig L. Oliver, Sr.
SambranoPoet: Love this Elizabeth Bishop poem:
Villarreal753: Emilia Bishop: (Looks at Kate and gasps) Katherine Elizabeth Bishop!
Kate: Hi Grandma. Just call me Kate.
Emilia: Why are you wearing that Monkey Suit?
Kate: (Confused) What? What are you talking about? This is not a Tuxedo, Grandma. I like my suit like that for this occasion.
HenryEOliver: “Moonlight as we enter
the New Brunswick woods,
hairy, scratchy, splintery;
moonlight and mist
caught in them like lamb's wool
on bushes in a pasture.”
Elizabeth Bishop, The Moose, 1972
brainpickings: One Art – the decades-old classic that remains the ultimate consolation for loss
brainpicker: One Art – the decades-old classic that remains the ultimate consolation for loss
anarchpetditty: Today, lamenting how the start of spring is--in Louisville, KY--likely to be cold, I remembered that Elizabeth Bishop wrote a poem titled "A Cold Spring" and now I get what the title means. Before, all I got were the fireflies that rise "exactly like the bubbles in champagne."
infinita_fiori: “love should be put into action!”
screamed the old hermit.
across the pond an echo
tried and tried to confirm it.
elizabeth bishop
infinita_fiori: we’d rather have the iceberg than the ship, although it meant the end of travel. although it stood stock-still like cloudy rock and all the sea were moving marble (...) this iceberg cuts its facets from within. like jewelry from a grave.
elizabeth bishop
infinita_fiori: alone on the railroad track
i walked with pounding heart.
the ties were too close together
or maybe too far apart.
elizabeth bishop
DunblaneCathed: /...A plaque in Dunblane Cathedral, above the effigy of Bishop Clement, commemorates the visit of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1983 on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the rebuilding of the Cathedral as initiated by Clement.../
_djsalinger: elizabeth bishop y un intento de optimismo respecto a la orfandad tempranísima: "it's glorious not to feel you'll have to turn out well or you'll break someone's heart"
JordanDavisPoet: When I read Elizabeth Bishop I end up reading James Schuyler, and vice versa. Sometimes Schuyler leads back to Ashbery instead, or Charles North. Sometimes North leads to Bishop.
Justus56Y: Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell KNBJP5I
poetrynw: “throated on a wire, we sing, we sing, we sang, / all feet dangling and wings lame, we have sung”
- Karen Elizabeth Bishop
DavidCranmerUn1: Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and his wife, Sophia of the Palatinate. Sophia was the granddaughter of King James I of England through her mother, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.
From about 1100, after a fire destroyed Osnabrück cathedral and its adjacent bishop's house,
ConnorH2192: Elizabeth Bishop
fairliehope: ‘The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.’
— Elizabeth Bishop
_manishkapoor: “All my life I’ve had wonderful reviews. And at the very end they’ll say, ‘The best poetry by a woman in this decade, or year, or month.’ Well, ha! What’s that worth? You know? But you just sort of get used to it.” Elizabeth Bishop, interviewed by
ojalart: “There’s nothing more embarrassing than being a poet, really.” —Elizabeth Bishop
parisreview: “There’s nothing more embarrassing than being a poet, really.” —Elizabeth Bishop
dinglytheillus1: Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.
Elizabeth Bishop
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seaontheland: Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip, had a bank to use with knighthoods if they wanted to; that is the Bank of England, with Mr. Jason Edward Bishop as the King's person.
seaontheland: The power for knighthoods is usually the owner of the bank; and for Queen Elizabeth II that was Mr. Jason Edward Bishop, as their Lord, who was providing finance to Prince Philip and nobody else.
TheFridayPoem: "If Bishop’s life, and work, isn’t shaped by the specific absence of her mother, I do believe it’s shaped by the absence of a sustained (and sustaining) maternal figure." — Alan Buckley on ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop.
travelstacey76: Circled is the Laud Room in Gloucester Cathedral, a room where, not only did Queen Elizabeth I watch Bishop Hooper burn at the stake for not renouncing Catholicism (memorial in the 2nd picture) but also where I had my college classes....not creepy AT ALL!!
travelstacey76: Circled is the Laud Room in Gloucester Cathedral, a room where, not only did Queen Elizabeth I watch Bishop Hooper burn at the stake for not renouncing Catholicism (memorial in the 2nd picture) but also where I had my college classes....not creepy AT ALL!!
travelstacey76: Circled is the Laud Room in Gloucester Cathedral, a room where, not only did Queen Elizabeth I watch Bishop Hooper burn at the stake for not renouncing Catholicism (memorial in the 2nd picture) but also where I had my college classes....not creepy AT ALL!!
TheFridayPoem: New this week — our Friday Poem is 'The Dowry of Hera' by Rebecca Ferrier, Alan Buckley on 'Filling Station' by Elizabeth Bishop (Part Two), Bruno Cooke on the new Forward Prize category, and Steven Lovatt reviews 'Mother of Flip-flops' by Mukahang Limbu
LAHMCCABE: This definitely has an Elizabeth Bishop vibe!
LOLGOP: The Elizabeth Bishop of Tweets they call me.
TheFridayPoem: "The psychiatrist Bishop saw as an adult said that she was lucky to have survived her childhood ... She survived in no small part through writing." — Alan Buckley continues his close reading of ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop.
BernardCormier: 2/2
Elizabeth and I I extend our sympathy to his family, and to all the priests and congregations he served. We pray for peace and comfort to them at this difficult time. We knew Bishop Troy as a very kind and gentle man.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Ofbooksandbikes: Robert Lowell on the life of Flannery O’Connor: “Flannery silent.” He and Elizabeth Bishop were both big fans.
TheFridayPoem: New this week — our Friday Poem is 'The Dowry of Hera' by Rebecca Ferrier, Alan Buckley on 'Filling Station' by Elizabeth Bishop (Part Two), Bruno Cooke on the new Forward Prize category, and Steven Lovatt reviews 'Mother of Flip-flops' by Mukahang Limbu
Jeanvaljean689: What's the last piece of writing you read that made you feel alive to your core?
For me:
Mark Doty, in an essay from his book "The Art of Description", he describes a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, so well,
I could only respond YES, this is the juice; this is what writing can do
ConnorH2192: Nick Laird Reads Elizabeth Bishop
queerlitbot: Finish your breakfast. The tender is coming
Elizabeth Bishop, Arrival at Santos
pfanderson: Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
TheFridayPoem: New today — our Friday Poem is 'The Dowry of Hera' by Rebecca Ferrier, Alan Buckley on 'Filling Station' by Elizabeth Bishop (Part Two), Bruno Cooke on the new Forward Prize category, and Steven Lovatt reviews 'Mother of Flip-flops' by Mukahang Limbu
TheFridayPoem: "Bishop, too, feels a little startled by the ending of ‘Filling Station’, as if she’s found herself saying more than she might have intended to." — Alan Buckley continues his close reading of ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop.
raheleryn: “Sometimes it seems . . . as though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent to let themselves be loved.”
—Elizabeth Bishop
Bishopish: My Wife Bishop Elizabeth and I are so Blessed to see the development in leadership of Reverend Ivette Luperena. She is Standing here next to the Honorable NYPD Deputy Commisioner of Community Affairs Mark Steward. A Great man with a Great heart for our city!
TheFridayPoem: New today — our Friday Poem is 'The Dowry of Hera' by Rebecca Ferrier, Alan Buckley on 'Filling Station' by Elizabeth Bishop (Part Two), Bruno Cooke on the new Forward Prize category, and Steven Lovatt reviews 'Mother of Flip-flops' by Mukahang Limbu
GRANDHIGHWlTCH: godddd my heart breaks for elizabeth bishop
vbraylov: whenever i find myself dealing with loss in any form, the ending of a friendship or disappearance of my favorite sweater, i come back to this elizabeth bishop gem
TheDavidMAmes: You’ve beat some titans: Noelle Kocot, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Bishop. The kids love your work.
JonathanSEllis: Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop, blood test, and now pie and Guinness in the pub. Elton John on the jukebox & it’s just started snowing.
TheFridayPoem: New on the Frip — our Friday Poem is 'Funeral' by Tony Kitt, Alan Buckley looks at 'Filling Station' by Elizabeth Bishop, Tim Murphy reviews 'Sing Me Down from the Dark' by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana and Mat Riches reviews 'Exposed Staircase' by Will Eaves
