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dylan thomas, from fern hill; the collected poems (ed. by john goodby)  / louise glück, from “otis”, poems 1962 - 2012 / shafee’e kadkani, tr. by ali maza-heri, from the flag of our childhood: poems from the middle east: “sea,” / rainer maria rilke, letters of rainer maria rilke, 1892-1910 /nikos kazantzakis from a letter to harilaos stefanidis wr. c. june 1924 / fernando pessoa, a little larger than the entire universe: selected poems / uncle yanco, dir. agnes varda (1967) / nikos kazantzakis, tr. by carl wildman, from “zorba the greek,” wr. c. 1946 / clarice lispector, tr. by johnny lorenz, um sopro de vida

— Kristin Chang, excerpt from Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience; “Domesticity”

— Guillermo Del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone (via swordofdemeter)

I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.

“Traversing the threshold between sleep and wakefulness, we find visual suspense lingering on the boundary between nature and culture. The space-time of the shores that surface within Asako Narahashi’s photographs provoke the thoughts and sentiments of an era of crisis.”

Maria Ermolenko, interviewed by Masha Borodacheva for Calvert Journal (x)

w.s merwin // source // @psychicdonuts // carmen maria machado // ‘the living end’ (1992) dir. gregg araki // cigarettes after sex // hozier // unknown // the lovers of valdaro // j.p. grasser // franny choi // joy harjo // ilya kaminsky // memorial to a marriage

Marie Howe, from Magdalene: Poems; “October”

Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

— Hanif Abdurraqib, from “IT’S NOT LIKE NIKOLA TESLA KNEW ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DIE,” A Fortune for Your Disaster

— Andrea Juele, from “Note to Self,” published in Aster(ix)

—Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

in The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery)

marina tsvetaeva trans by ilya kaminsky

Seagulls, 1925, Frank Weston Benson. American Impressionist Painter (1862 - 1951) - Watercolor and Pencil on Paper -

- Mahmoud Darwish