Like Many Poets, Im In Love With How The Word Stanza Comes From The Italian For Room, Or More Literally,

“Like many poets, I’m in love with how the word “stanza” comes from the Italian for “room,” or more literally, a “standing place.” I love thinking about how poems consist of rooms and can stand as houses, live as meeting places. I obsess about what kind of meetings a poem can bring about—surprising ones, strange ones. […] I’d like my poems to say (to myself, to a reader): you can bring all of yourself into these rooms, including what you have yet to know about yourself, your worlds, your dreams. Your myths and questions, yes.”

— Chen Chen, from his interview with 32 poems

Laetitia Casta by Cedric Buchet - 2010

Who should your Patron Saint be?

Morgiana (1972) dir. Juraz Herz

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

F. W. Glasier :: Loie Fuller in La danse Blanche, 1902