YOU SHOULD BE HERE.

A monthly zine featuring art, writings, & creations of badass Women. Brooklyn, New York DEADLINE FOR ISSUE #3 IS JULY 31st!

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"HOW TO GET TO WHERE WE’RE GOING " by Sarah Vandervennet via Electric Cereal

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Many a hero in his time And every poet has acquired A lost woman to haunt the home, To be compensated and desired, Who will not alter, who will not grow, A corpse they need never get to know.

-An excerpt borrowed from Patricia Beer’s poem “The Lost Woman” (via brangwen-iii)

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He had not looked, pitiful man whom none pity, whom all must pity if they look into their own face (given only by glass, steel, water barely known) all who look up to see-how many faces? How many seen in a lifetime? (Not those that flash by, but those into which the gaze wanders and is lost and returns to tell Here is a mystery, a person, an other, an I?

Denise Levertov “When We Look Up” (via womenofthebeatgeneration)

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Because good could always be seen / Glimmering like lame glimmers / In the window of a shop / Called Beautiful You were. You are / The brightest thing in the shop window / And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw. — Mary Jo Bang

(via abravelove)

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Liberate Poetry! Robert Pinsky's Manifesto for Readers

Poetry has been taken hostage by the academy, but former poet laureate Robert Pinsky rides to the rescue. By Daniel Bosch.

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Julia Cocuzza: Artist

  Julia has an upcoming solo exhibition at Greenpoint Gallery, Friday November 15th (additional shows to be announced on http://juliacocuzza.com/art/news.html) Go check her work out in person! Face to face! Womano y Womano!

  She was born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania.  After earning her B.F.A. from Syracuse University’s College of Visual & Performing Arts in 2003, she moved to New York City and soon after to Brooklyn, where she still works and resides. In 2008, she received an honorarium from Alvernia University and was granted a month-long artist residency by the Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, Illinois.  In 2011 she completed her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College, City University of New York. In addition to painting, she is the co-founder and creative director of Griot Apparel, adjunct lecturer at Brooklyn College, apprentice for City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, and a freelance illustrator and designer.

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Kate Conte: Poet

Pray Baby

  Novena, babita

know he is left handed because his gun

is on the other hip

2 Saint Giglio cops teeth

last fat cigars

water game Girl smokes American Spirit

hawked from an Okinawa fence

& when she’s home,

Novena, babita

it’s to 5 rooms & 20 strangers

the baby cries

Novena, babita

it’s rain-every-afternoon-summer

read dailies off sitter’s shoulder

bitter deli coffee, dogs

howl by crossroads

by bought drinks, for brushed skin

in drives home & diner parking lots

under neon

water game girl is done

with her American Spirit

say a novena, babita

on Mount Saint Carmel’s steps

drugs sell better

to a ripped collar—

“Place your bets, just a dollar!”

crowd.

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Home grown from Bensonhurst, Kate Conte has dabbled in mischief & words for over a decade. She was Senior Editor for the Brooklyn College literary magazine The Junction for four years, plays electric guitar, paints & currently kickboxes the crap out of body bags three days a week.

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Check out Yasmin Islas. Eighteen year old Mexican artist born in Madrid, Spain. Animation student.Digital Artist. Capturess of moments.

See more by Yasmin and other talented ladies in You Should Be Here's Issue 3

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Caitlin Scott : Poet

Angelus

I.

Blake's are of a by-gone era

flashing in the trees like

torn doilies and plastic bags

Our messengers will not be soft or spare

trumpet throated

or sound like feed sacks

falling on hay

rather their feathers

are a grim, ripe speech

over a fire escape and a clothesline

an absence, acutely like death

but without its approval  

a life running parallel but apart

confounding evensong

but then, even the birds have changed

the cardinal

will become a crow

a star of oil in the snow

bearing a slim banner

like street lights speaking to themselves

in a storm

they are pedestrian

flashing their signals for an empty street

crossing one divide

for another darkness

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Born and raised in the Atlantic Ocean, Caitlin Scott is  new to Brooklyn and the big city. She is a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School, a hospital chaplain and personal chef who sells wine in the meantime. Caitlin loves every iteration of the avocado and the cactus- fiddles, autoharps, Whitman, and civil war reenactments. She is interested in the restorative power of salt water, and the uneven cartwheels of grace.  She is currently on the hunt for a good cast iron skillet and a tattoo artist.

    More of Caitlin's work in the third issue! Come and get it!

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Sophie Suttonberg is a young sydney-sider who to some is none but possessor of ultra groovy dance moves, a love of carrot cake and a slightly precocious

desire to always refer to herself in the 3rd person. To others though,

a passive-aggressive people watcher from way back who would really like to take your picture.

    Check her out and other talented ladies in Issue 3 of You Should Be Here!!

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one more stunna by Lena Kholkina

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and so the beautifully cluttered bedroom theme continues

photo by Lena Kholkina

see more by her here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/notmycat

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My kind of people.

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GOINGS-ON

I Am The Beggar Of The World

On Tuesday July 29th The Women's Center Stage Festival 2013 will be featuring readings of Landay (a form of Afghan folk poetry) touching upon the themes as "drones, war, sex, rage, love -- an ancient form with modern content."

Featured pieces were collected by American journalist and poet Eliza Griswold and will be read by Afghan women residing in and around NYC.

Tickets are available online. The event will begin at 7pm at The Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project. 

Maybe it's only me but I feel like this is Exactly the sort of intersection of Art and Justice that makes the world go round.

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whimsically surreal dreamscapes by the lovely and wonderfully talented Stephanie Bracciano -- check out more of her work at www.stephaniebracciano.com and www.deepwithinthearmoire.etsy.com

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Hilda Doolittle reads from "Helen in Egypt"