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— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

— Kevin Young, from “The Stair,” Poetry (vol. 222, no. 4, July / August 2023)

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

igor moritz \ paul fenniak \ magi puig catalan in bed \ philip geiger every door (2018) \ maria luque \ carmen pinart \ david hettinger a break in their day \ félix vallotton laid down woman, sleeping (1899) \ edouard vuillard woman in a bed 

Paris, Texas (1984), dir. Wim Wenders

Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

– James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

Tarfia Faizullah, from "The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For"

or, the limitation of the medium | In stillness, terror. musings

Mary Britton Miller in Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City

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