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PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES from We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt

Premonitions, Elizabeth Schmuhl

The Renunciations, Donika Kelly

Louise Glück, from The Encounter

{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

Muse Found in a Colonized Body, Yesenia Montilla

Frank Bidart, from “In the Western Night” in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Jenny Holzer, Arno 1999

— C.T. Salazar; Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking

Auguries & Divinations, Heather Treseler

richard siken’s new poem in the new yorker—at the link, you can hear him read it in full

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence // Ada Limón, "Lies About Sea Creatures" // Sherita Walker // @itsbaditsgood // Richard Siken, "I Had a Dream About You" // Richard Siken, "You Are Jeff" (8) // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @_demarmol on Instagram // Anne Sexton, "The Touch"