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Love this poem by @poetalicewhite :

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Susan Sontag:

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“We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.” — Audre Lorde

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Always floored by Toni Morrison:

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Happy first day of spring from Virginia Woolf: 🌷

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THIS...by Kazuo Ishiguro:

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Emily Dickinson:

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Always moved by this... Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vita Sackville-West:

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A good reminder for the week:

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One of my favorite poems by @maggiesmithpoet :

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Happy birthday to Sylvia Plath:

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Virginia Woolf:

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Yeah…this. By Kay Ryan:

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Thrilled for @adalimon and for all of us. ✨ Here’s one of my favorites:

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Emily Dickinson:

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Emily Dickinson:

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Mary Oliver, who died on this day in 2019:

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Vibe, Virginia Woolf:

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Langston Hughes:

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Virginia Woolf:

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Always returning to James Baldwin:

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Mary Oliver:

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Happy birthday to the brilliant Emily Dickinson:

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Kazuo Ishiguro:

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Sharon Olds:

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"In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you." — Virginia Woolf

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This poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich every time:

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She understood so much. RIP Joan Didion (1934 - 2021):

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Happy birthday, Frank O’Hara:

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These lines from Anne Carson's Orestes (Euripides) never cease to move:

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e. e. cummings:

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Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 1926:

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Always return to this Czesław Miłosz:

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Mary Oliver:

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Happy birthday to dearest @maggiesmithpoet , who has given us some pretty stellar gems, like this one:

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The brilliant Sharon Olds:

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Anne Carson:

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Sylvia Plath with the Monday tough love:

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e.e. cummings:

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Mary Oliver with a good reminder for this day:

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Diary of Anaïs Nin, December 16, 1930

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Rest peacefully, Robert Bly (1926 - 2021):

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Albert Camus:

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Ijeoma Umebinyuo:

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Anne Carson:

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Love each other without scruples or restraint... Franz Kafka (Letters to Milena, Schocken Books, 1952):

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Mary Oliver for your Saturday:

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E. E. Cummings:

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Anne Carson:

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Always return to this poem by Linda Pastan:

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This poem by Jane Stembridge:

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from Anne Carson's translation of Euripides ❤️

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Oh, how I love this:

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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.” — Anaïs Nin

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Happy birthday, Frank O'Hara:

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James Baldwin:

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"In this short Life that only lasts an hour merely / How much - how little - is within our power." Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson.

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Anaïs Nin:

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In a month, we will all be Emily Dickinson:

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Happy birthday, dear @adalimon :

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Emily Dickinson:

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Sappho (trans. by Anne Carson):

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Naomi Shihab Nye:

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It's 2022! Here's a reminder that not all writers publish their first books in infancy: George Eliot: 40 Toni Morrison: 40 Marcel Proust: 43 Tolkien: 45 Annie Proulx: 57 Daniel Defoe: 59 Laura Ingalls Wilder: 65 Frank McCourt: 66 KEEP WRITING. Your book is right on time. ✨

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Sylvia Plath:

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Still not over this Old English word, which feels like an entire philosophy in itself we'd do well to adopt. From dūst (“dust”) + sċēawung (“inspection, contemplation”):

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Please have your mind wonderfully blown by this Mark Strand poem:

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Toni Morrison from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech:

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Good morning from Mary Oliver:

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Franz Kafka:

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"I exist in two places, here and where you are." ― Margaret Atwood

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I seasonally post this poem by Molly Brodak, a poet whose life ended too soon, but whose mark on the poetry community was profound. It feels right to post it on National Poetry Day.

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Sharon Olds:

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Your mid-day reminder from Anne Sexton:

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Revisiting one of my favorite passages from an interview with Toni Morrison:

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Oof, Elizabeth Gilbert:

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Czesław Miłosz:

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The absolute brilliance of Toni Morrison:

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Always returning to this poem by @SeanLemonhead :

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"Loving you is like saying 'I'm alive.'" Nazim Hikmet (trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk):

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Still this. Still. This.

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Goodness...this poem by Tess Gallagher:

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Emily Dickinson to George H. Gould, February 1850:

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Happy Birthday, Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974):

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"I exist in two places, here and where you are." ― Margaret Atwood

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Oof, who needed this Susan Sontag today?

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Happy September from Allen Ginsberg:

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Louise Erdrich:

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This poem by Raymond Carver:

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James Baldwin:

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Dorothy Parker articulating her #Antifa sentiments is quite possibly the best thing I read all week:

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“If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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"What did I know, what did I know..."

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“If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling.” — Fernando Pessoa

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James Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk):

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This poem by @poetalicewhite in @new_letters : ✨

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Virginia Woolf:

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Oh, this poem by @adalimon :

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Still not over this Old English word, which feels like an entire philosophy in itself. From dūst (“dust”) + sċēawung (“inspection, contemplation”). I wrote a piece about it for @GuernicaMag last year ✨

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I have a poem in this issue of @poetrymagazine & though I haven’t seen the issue yet, a friend sent me this photo. And what can I say except 🙏🏻 & 😭 in equal measure.

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