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In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: “Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
James Joyce, "The Dead," from Dubliners
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on-poetry · 2 days
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Julia Vinograd.
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on-poetry · 3 days
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for so long i would not touch myself for fear of finding a body.
sam sax, "Epithalamium," from PIG
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on-poetry · 4 days
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The name of a person you love is more than language—
Tennessee Williams, "The Vine," out of Collected Stories
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on-poetry · 4 days
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—Sharon Olds, “Love Fossil” from Satan Says
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on-poetry · 7 days
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Mahmoud Darwish (trans. Mohammad Shaheen), Like a Hand Tattoo in an Ode by an Ancient Arab Poet
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on-poetry · 12 days
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I just had a flash fiction piece published! You can read it here! https://eggplusfrog.com/flash-dead-man-talking/
I will also be judging a flash fiction competition for this journal—more info on that soon :-)
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on-poetry · 18 days
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“ Nature Walk    ”
Photo by Ishikoro. Japan.
Love & Peace!
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on-poetry · 18 days
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  ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
[ text ID: I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. ]
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on-poetry · 21 days
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Final Poem in Some Poems by Paul Klee, trans. by Anselm Hollo
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on-poetry · 22 days
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Jeremy Radin, from "Lazar Wolf the Butcher" (poem written during staging of Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse, shared on his IG page) [ID'd]
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on-poetry · 22 days
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Still with this Victoria Chang poem.
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on-poetry · 25 days
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on-poetry · 25 days
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer
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on-poetry · 25 days
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Edward Hopper, City Roofs, 1932. Oil on canvas.
It shows the view from the roof of the Greenwich Village building where Hopper lived. In 1935, when a New York Post reporter asked Hopper what he did for fun, he replied: “I get most of my pleasure out of the city itself.”
Photo: NY Times
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on-poetry · 1 month
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If you're as obsessed as I am with "Outbreaks" by Kitchen McKeown, here's a little craft essay I did on the metaphors at work in this poem :)
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susan sontag’s writing on writing, from her journals
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