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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “These Days People Are Really Selling Me on California”

“The Alter of the Soul”, 1870

Comet Leonard l optiquevideo l Québec Canada

Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno

Psyche and Cupid, late 19th century

— Anne Boyer, from "No," published on the Poetry Foundation blog

"what it looks like to us and the words we use", ada limón

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

[text ID: This is the last day of August and like almost all of them of extraordinary beauty. Each day is fine enough and hot enough for sitting out; but also full of wandering clouds;]

August 28, 1930 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931 [volume 4]

Jeff Buckley “I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)”

1900

Venetian book cat