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surprise notes app poetry time

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this is incredibly curated! – from textbooks to podcasts to essays available online. 

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Kissing a girl in front of the Salvation Army church

like leaning out of the kitchen window to flip off God like burning a fainting couch like an obscenity trial like cutting a string of pearls like punching a Manet like ripping a sticker off a bathroom door like wearing satin flares to a funeral like pretending to forget your ex’s name like growing pansies in the desert like falling in love then paying for it

— Phoebe Stuckes, from Platinum Blonde

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NOT EVERYTHING FEELS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE

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“Lemonade was not made for me, either. As a Singaporean Chinese woman, I would be lying if I said I was familiar with the complex, myriad ways Beyoncé explores black female personhood, sexuality, and spirituality in the film. But as a non-American, non-white woman, what I am familiar with is appreciating art that is not and will never be made with me in mind. This is a process that white people are now struggling with more publicly than ever. It seems to me that much of the pain in this process comes from entitlement, which often stems from ignorance. I wonder: Do white people in the Western world understand just how much of global popular culture is tailored to their tastes and their histories? Do white people in the Western world know that, for non-white people who wish to participate in and discuss global popular culture, being well-versed in white cultural and musical history is almost compulsory? Do white people in the Western world know how laughable it is that they feel excluded just because a popular work of art dares to be less culturally legible to them?”

— Beyoncé’s Lemonade: A Lesson on Appreciating Art That Wasn’t Made for You | Consequence of Sound (via reygf)

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“Well, the Gothic can be conducive to suppressed voices emerging, like in a haunted house. At its core, the Gothic drama is fundamentally about voiceless things—the dead, the past, the marginalized—gaining voices that cannot be ignored.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, interviewed by Theodore McCombs for Electric Literature (x)

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“May we raise children who love the unloved things”

by Nicolette Sowder

May we raise children who love the unloved things–the dandelion, the worms and spiderlings. Children who sense the rose needs the thorn

& run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards sun…

And when they’re grown & someone has to speak for those who have no voice

may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things

and be the ones.

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“It’s so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious… I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you’ve swallowed the universe? Not say so?”

— Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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“Why do so many body parts sound like hymn: hymen, humerus, hamstring, hip, heart? Or why does a hymn want so much to sound like our bodies?”

— Emily Paige Wilson, “On the Wall,” from Hypochondria, Least Powerful of the Greek Gods

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Борзые собаки. Хортая борзая. Александр Дегтев

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Rauferei Norbertine Bresslern-Roth

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Souls in Purgatory, Looking Up at the Wounds of Christ and at the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart unknown artist Wellcome Collection

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vilkas, barghest helspawn + parallels

cop car - mitski // gknaww - dusty ray // it will come back - hozier // angriest dog in the world - david lynch // biting down - lorde // seeing red - fumi nakamura // falling sketch - clara lieu // passing through - cult of luna // 10 am is when you come to me - louise bourgeois // jen mazza // rumi // dogpee - dusty ray

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happy tdov i have been sitting on this for ages but it feels like the right time to post it

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when ur favorite poet literally ever follows u but u havent posted any original work since november LMAO 🖐

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Trying to convince yourself to write like