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We baked a fresh bowl for dinner?, I wonder. Do you think the pen will sink or grow? Do you think a pen will sink or throw? Sure. This could be a very delightful exercise (for poets), I think to myself.
...moreWe baked a fresh bowl for dinner?, I wonder. Do you think the pen will sink or grow? Do you think a pen will sink or throw? Sure. This could be a very delightful exercise (for poets), I think to myself.
...moreThere is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.
...moreI laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.
...moreI pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
...moreYou are never really at peace with what you haven’t gotten.
...moreI feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
...moreWe both can disappear in our own ways, can’t we?
...moreJenny Qi discusses her debut poetry collection, FOCAL POINT.
...moreYou want to, but do you? Do you dare hope?
...moreThere aren’t enough trains in Los Angeles. Not enough for me to sleep.
...more“Balance is its own beautiful practice.”
...moreRajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
...morePoems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.
...moreFinding joy in the now, even as death and difficulty mark the days, is possible, a choice, and a practice.
...moreThe best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
...moreIt was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
...moreTo have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
...moreJocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
...moreA fossil. A body. A message from a recovered life.
...moreBeth Gilstrap discusses her new story collection, DEADHEADING.
...moreMy miraculous children were mine, and mine alone.
...moreTrisha R. Thomas discusses her new novel, WHAT PASSES AS LOVE.
...moreMai Der Vang discusses her new poetry collection, YELLOW RAIN.
...more“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
...moreI want to ask Anna for a map of desirability. Where was I before, where was I pregnant, where am I now?
...moreResonance is a given. You can’t help but hear. In Lauren Shapiro’s Arena, every seat is the best seat in the house.
...moreZauner’s memoir is not a performance, but an act of love, including all the dirty little bits that come with it.
...moreJoshua Henkin discusses his new novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS.
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