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february by Alex Dimitrov

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Paige Lewis, "Diorama of Want"

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Jen Levitt, from “Dunes”

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Pádraig Ó Tuama, “The Lifeline”

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André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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- Noor Hindi

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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.”

—  Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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"White Night", Anna Akhmatova (translated by D. M. Thomas)

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Palestinian Writer, Susan Abulhawa

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I left a part of me in North Carolina. And there’s still a part of me in a small apartment on the corner of 84th and Lex. And perhaps the biggest part of me will always be in a suburb outside of New York in a house that will always look the same with a garden with vegetables and a garage with a car that always needs to be worked on. But the rest of me, however big or small of a piece that may be, I can promise you, will always be with you.

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“Believe me, what you want is someone to have dinner with. Sleep with from time to time, telephone every day or write. It’s what you set up that is defeating. Make it very modest. And give yourself permission to make a few mistakes. You know, blow it a bit. Have a few drinks and fall into bed with somebody. It doesn’t have to be the final thing.”

— Leonard Cohen on relationships, 2007

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Bryce Emley, from "A List of Waters"

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Safia Elhillo from “Geneva”, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

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Frank O'Hara, from The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara; "Avenue A"

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Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World

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Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home