Mary Oliver, Summer Morning

"Don’t court Loneliness", Tathev Simonyan

Mary Oliver, "Flare"

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Jean Epstein)

Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830–1980

Man Ray. Lilies, 1925.

Jericho Brown, "To Be Asked for a Kiss"

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Experience”

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Three, Bakandamiya

— Trista Mateer, from “For the One Who Loved My Hands More than Anything Else,” The Dogs I Have Kissed

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back

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