Above the Underline

Ocean Vuong, from “The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica”, Time Is a Mother

Amy Hempel, Cloudland

— The Carnivorous Lamb, Agustín Gómez-Arcos, tr. William Rodarmor

— Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Battle Scars

– James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall

— Noor Shirazie

Thomas Dyer, The Folk-lore of Plants

Thou hast howl’d away twelve winters.”

[Text ID: “(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines? Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)”]

Mitski for Pitchfork // Richard Siken for TinHouse

- extract from a christine and the queens interview that I saved in my journal

Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

- Mahmoud Darwish

— Cecilia Woloch, from “Postcard Beginning With a Quote from Mark C., Avenue de l'Opéra,” Carpathia

Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

Sai Assari, Dreamer’s Collection

— Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

— Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy

bell hooks, All About Love