Upcoming Events
- Saturday, Feb 4, 2012
- COW (CHRONOGRAM OPEN WORD)Starts: 7:00 pmLocation: BEAhive, 314 Wall St., Kingston
- POETRY ON THE LOOSEStarts: 8:00 pmLocation: Baby Grand Bookshop, 7 West Street, Warwick
- Monday, Feb 6, 2012
- TIERRA COFFEE ROASTERS OPEN MICStarts: 8:00 pmLocation: Tierra Coffee Roasters, 1038 Madison Ave., Albany
- Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012
- NITTY GRITTY SLAMStarts: 7:00 pmLocation: Valentines, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany
- EMACK & BOLIO'S OPEN MIC NIGHTStarts: 7:00 pmLocation: Emack & Bolio's, Delaware Ave., Albany
Therese Broderick
Therese L. Broderick teaches a weekly writing class to men in recovery. She has won local and national poetry awards and has been published locally and nationally. She lives in Albany with her husband and daughter.
POEMS
PROPER NAME
Don’t think that I was named for the ecstasy of Avila. My mother baptized me only for the roses of Lisieux–a peasant’s modesty, not a noble’s passion.
But so many of you have confused me
with that other Teresa
that I have long been possessed
by what I am not–quite mad
with denial.
A wrathful angel, I brandish swords
at the gates of my name–
above two letters “e,”
two accents “grave” and “aigu.”
Along with a flower’s perfume, O Mother, its thorns.
Recent Articles
- Tom Nattell Memorial Beret Toss and Open Mic, January 3002 Feb 2012
- Where in the Hudson Valley is Robert Milby in February?02 Feb 2012
- James Whitley to Conduct Poetry Reading at Excelsior College02 Feb 2012
- the sun, m-expletive f-expletive31 Jan 2012
- Paul Pines and Stuart Bartow at Caffe Lena30 Jan 2012
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