Jerry Cooke - A Streetcar Named Desire
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It's world poetry day so here are some (more) of my favorite poems:
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin
All Trains Are Going Local by Timothy Liu
Rural Boys Watch the Apocalypse by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)
HOPE YOU’RE WELL. PLEASE DON’T READ THIS. by Lev St. Valentine (@dogrotpdf)
Time of Love by Claribel Alegría
Every Job Has a First Day by Rebecca Gayle Howell
ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? by Devin Kelly
Reading by A.R. Ammons
things i want to ask you by Helga Floros
Night Bird by Danusha Laméris
Prayer for Werewolves by Stephanie Burt
The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car by Dorothea Grossman
The Yearner by Rachel Long
If I Had Three Lives by Sarah Russell
I Dream on a Crowded Subway Train with My Eyes Open But My Body Swaying by Chen Chen
We Have Not Long to Love by Tennessee Williams
Jesus at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme
Cracks by Dieu Dinh
and here's part one <3
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Insist on believing that good will prevail; that the work will get done; that there will again be love. We have to want to get up in the morning for the good mornings to arrive.
- Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God, June 29, 2023 (via Alive on All Channels)
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Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire
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Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando during the Broadway run of “A Streetcar Named Desire” circa 1947-48
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Tennessee Williams, talk to me like the rain and let me listen (1953)
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I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again.
Tennessee Williams
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I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me.
Tennessee Williams, from ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
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The name of a person you love is more than language
Tennessee Williams, from Selected Stories; “The Vine,” c. July 1944
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i never loved me, baby, but you do
wintersong, s. jae-jones / orestes, euripides / bloodsport, yves olade / antigone, sophocles / mess is mine, vance joy / x / forever winter, taylor swift / x / x / x / aaron o'hanlon / the best day, taylor swift / the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkins reid / cat on a hot tin roof, tennessee williams / the song of achilles, madeline miller / dancing with our hands tied, taylor swift / h of h playbook, anne carson / mouthful of forevers, clementine von radics / caption: radiate, harbour
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I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.
Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters: 1920-1945
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Be happy. Be happy fully. It's so brief. And a blessing. Give in to it.
—Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God (July 27, 2022) (via Alive on All Channels)
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The name of a person you love is more than language
Tennessee Williams, from Selected Stories; “The Vine,” c. July 1944
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“Because I found life unsatisfactory, I needed to create an imaginary life, an imaginary world, imaginary characters.” — Tennessee Williams
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