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Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,”

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Almond Blossoms and Beyond; "When You Are With Me,"

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INTERVIEW by JORDAN KAPONO NAKAMURA

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Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Retroactive jealousy”

[Text ID: “Someday I’ll care for something / without wanting to close a door behind it.”]

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from "My ear attends to you", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Maxwell Shorter)

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Nooshin Ghanbari, from "transient"

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Mary Oliver, from “A Poetry Handbook” (published in 1994)

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𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

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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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Circling the Sun, Wanda Koop

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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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“I perceive the world in terms of language, as I think any real writer does. From the time I was a kid, even just through reading, I felt that it was like having two lives, like living twice, as some Japanese poet put it. I had the good fortune to have this second infinity, this second universe, inside of me, which I carried around with me. It’s like being in love, like having a wonderful secret. It makes the world radiant. I needed something to make things alive. I found that in my love of poetry. Not just writing it, but in the love of poetry itself. I always thought of writing poetry as an attempt to be part of that company of people who made this reality possible in the world.”

An interview with Franz Wright

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300122, S.T.

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I see green, icy blue - Brandon (@brandonfilm)

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j. sullivan