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Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds

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Overland, Natalie Eilbert

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Overland, Natalie Eilbert

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by richard siken

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salvage by Hedgie Choi

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“Under the gaze of Clarice Lispector, every event hatches; the ordinary opens up and shows its treasure, which is, precisely, ordinary. And suddenly like a storm — of wind, of gunfire, of teeth: life arrives.”

— Hélène Cixous, “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays

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Margaret Atwood, The Last Day

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Joy Sullivan, "State of Emergency", Instructions for Traveling West

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Erin Slaughter from The Sorrow Festival (2022)

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June 14, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

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Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

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heavenspeared, from "The starving moon dims and dies"

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Now it is high summer: the solstice: longed-for, possessed, luxurious, and sad.

Jane Kenyon, Camp evergreen

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We Have Not Long To Love, Tennessee Williams

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Dorianne Laux, from a poem featured in Only As The Day is Long: New and Selected Poems