Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

My Summer of Crisis Trisha Low

For You Kim Addonizio

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

— Will Rees, “Kafka the hypochondriac”

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

Mary Oliver, “I worried”

I Worried, Mary Oliver

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte, What We Become

Salma Deera, from a poem titled "War and Words," featured in Letters from Medea: Poems

Tired, Langston Hughes

— Rudy Francisco