- April is National Poetry Month
- Join the Vorhoff Library as we celebrate a woman poet each day during the month!
- April 9
- Florie Gale Arons
- Posted April 9, 2009
Department: Library/Archives
Florie Gale Arons graduated from Newcomb College in 1950. Her daughters
established a program that honors one female poet every year through the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women in 1999 in honor of her 70th birthday.
It continues today in her memory. Mrs. Arons' posthumously published
collection, Unspoken Words, is available at NCCROW, the Tulane Bookstore, and independent bookstores. Although you can't check it out, we do have a copy of Unspoken Words at the Vorhoff Library that you can peruse.
Arons said about her own work,
The impact of the real world, the world of nature, and the world of the imagination upon the relationships that are at the very center of life is the stuff my poems are made of. In writing this volume I learned to depend on the tansforming power of poetry to examine the matters of life and death we must come to terms with before fully engaging in the journey we each must undertake.Poem of the day:
Grand Central Station
Suspended from the center
a massive orb burns day and night
depriving no celestial city
of its eternal light
In this commuters' holy temple
on the wall for all to see
two man-made hands keep time confined
in this God-forsaken ministry
From ticket booth and turnstile gate
rushing to and from
neither passenger nor conductor
sees his final destination
as the common one
