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Ruth Reichl once wrote, “The best pizza in the world, as everybody knows, no longer exists. It is the pizza of your childhood.”

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Ilana Harris-Babou

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U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION POSTER [1918]

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Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 by Tracey Emin

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by florian kuhlmann

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Rio Cortez, GOLDEN AX

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Elisa Gabbert: And I think that, you know, I tend to go back and forth between poetry and essay because they’re just like sort of slightly different ways of processing thoughts. And so, I think a lot about—I know you mentioned slowness and urgency. I think about what way my mind is using time when I’m writing a poem versus writing an essay. And I definitely want an idea to kind of stand alone, to be able to sit in isolation more in a poem. And I think especially with the way these poems look on the page, you know, it’s like, kind of a prose line and then a gap. Like, I kind of want you to sit with it and question its truth value in a totally different way than you would if it was in an essay. Because I can say something in a poem that I don’t believe. This is one of the reasons that I continue to write poetry. I can’t do that in an essay, but I can do that in a poem, because the poem is like, fictive. It’s theatrical. It’s not really me. It’s not trying to convey a stable reality. It’s just a different engagement with truth.

"The Future Trembles," Poetry Off the Shelf (9 August 2022)

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"Pain has made a pearl of me. I can feel the breath of death pulsing, shaping me, making a knot of me again."

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I do not know why it took me 4 years to get my hands on The Book of X, I loved Tongue Party!!! Surreal, unsettling, beautiful. Etter writes heartbreakingly about grief & how it breaks you open in this surreal novel.

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Etter had me deep in thinking about the grief of girlhood/having a body & one's experience in the world, directly against the grief of the death of a loved one. #booksofinstagram #positivegoth #fiction

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The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter

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Louise Glück

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Oresteia: Elektra by Sophokles, tr. by Anne Carson [ID in alt text]

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“I sit in the lobby of someone else’s potential / thinking it is my own. I go about my day / convinced I am immortal.” - Bianca Stone

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Alicia Ostriker, from “In the Twenty-Fifth Year of Marriage, It Goes On.”

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— Robin Coste Lewis, from To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness