proverbial prince

? // roberto ferri // mothering by ainslie hogarth // rainer maria rilke // ? // planet of love by richard siken // a self portrait in letters by anne sexton // indian summer by ron hicks

Art by Anna-Laura

...and they were roommates 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌾

by mayticks

Also: Rin Chupeco has been saying and doing a lot of racist (especially anti-Black) things on Twitter, including being proud of using the n-word in the book they’re currently writing. I won’t support them or their books any longer.

{Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychogeography," published in The Los Angeles Review/ Anne Sexton/ Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls - Raised by Wolves/ Abraham Verghese/ Naguib Mahfouz/ Clementine von Radics, Poem: Courtney Love Prays to Oregon/ Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project/ Fatimah Asghar, from "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" published in The New York Times Magazine/ John Murillo, Poem: Mercy, Mercy, Me}

joan tierny / @angelic-abomination / @americansport / survival - adult mom / gillian flynn / bethany webster / maia baia / @hel7l7 / jenny holzer / kyung-sook shin

writing prompts for the broken-hearted, eden robinson / joan tierney / in the kitchen, yuanyuan liu / little weirds, jenny slate / kitchen, natalia kalaska / all too well, taylor swift / perhaps the world ends here, joy harjo / bicarusgf on tumblr / the kitchen table series, carrie mae weems / e.a. bucchianeri

[Text ID: i don't want you to be a lesson, learned the hard way; pulped up in the metal teeth of my dumb machine heart, hacksawed & hatcheted, left worsened by my wanting. i don't want you to be a lesson. i want you to be my lover. /End ID]

– Allen Ginsberg, "The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952"

[fatima aamer bilal, from my heart has claws // cody rocko // margaret atwood, from speeches for dr. frankenstein // cody rocko // @metamorphesque // jonathan safran foer // ruth katz crispin, from memory in my hands: the love poetry of pedro salinas; "the voice i owe to you" // fatima aamer bilal, from even flesh eaters don't want me // don synder // fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky]

[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]