The Doors | Ghost Song

Awake. Shake dreams from your hair. My pretty child, my sweet one. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day. The day’s divinity. First thing you see. A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon. Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side.

Sylvia Plath | Daddy

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Yale Courses | The Classical Feminist Tradition

In this lecture on feminist criticism, Professor Paul Fry uses Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as a lens to and commentary on the flourishing of feminist criticism in the twentieth century.

Maya Angelou | Ain’t I a woman

This was a 2009 English project for Black History Month. Maya Angelou was an inspiration; her tone and words express feelings like no other.

Giuseppe Verdi | La Forza del Destino

a forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra.

Des Honoris Causa #2

En este número: Erich Fried, Michele Mimmo, Esthela Calderón, Daniel Pulido, Mauricio Rayo, David Robinson, Octavio Escobar Giraldo, Cecco Angiolieri, Chicho Carreta

Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). It is one of the author’s most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers.

Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot

With the appearance of En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953, the literary world was shocked by the appearance of a drama so different and yet so intriguing that it virtually created the term “Theater of the Absurd”.