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Bringing the Exterior into our Private Rooms: A Conversation with Victoria Chang

There’s no reason for cruelty; the joy is in the writing. I always try to remember why I started doing this thing: Because I had to. It’s not a choice for many of us writers to write, but we do have a choice about whether we’re going to be nice or not.

National Poetry Month Day 24: Andrea Rexilius

Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

National Poetry Month Day 23: Ambalila Hemsell

Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

What to Read When It’s the End of the World

. . . a list of books that I feel are worth reaching for in times like ours—some because they are apocalyptic and heavy in subject or tone, others because they are satirical, and others because of how they show parts of the world that make it worth staying in or show a world so foreign to ours that it helps medicate against some of the tunnel vision of our times

Sketch book Reviews: Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

An illustrated review of TIME IS A MOTHER by Ocean Vuong.

National Poetry Month Day 22: r. erica doyle

Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

National Poetry Month Day 21: Alexa Patrick

Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

Stolen

A shitty bf, and a cycle of bike thievery.

We Are More: BLESSINGS FOR QUEEN DESIDERIA

I started to feel drowsy from the post-iftar food coma, the still air in the room, and the melancholic rhythm of the preacher’s recitation. I tried reading the Farsi subtitles to stay focused, but my eyes were tearing yawn after yawn.

why deer and poetry mix so well: A conversation with Caitlin Scarano

When you say, “Oh I run, but I’m not a runner,” it’s like when people say, “Oh I write, but I’m not a writer.” You’re doing it. You just do it and it does get better and there are simple things you can do to make it easier.

National Poetry Month Day 20: Jacqueline Allen Trimble

Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

Honey

That cafe smelled like fresh-baked bread and cookies, and the baristas were all women with warm, soft hands who called everyone — the Senator, the mothers, the babies, the businessmen — Honey. So many…

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