Bloody Thoughts and Broken Branches

from Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

catching up w ask polly this morning

— Sophie Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943), an anti-Nazi political activist, executed for high treason at the age of 21. (via kuanios)

What will happen by Leila Chatti

Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

Maggie Dietz, "November" [ID in alt text]

Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale by Dan Albergotti

Eschatology by Eve L. Ewing

Staying by Ali Shapiro

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky // Still - Noah Kahan // Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain // Their eyes were watching God - Zara Neale Hurston // The sacrificial lamb, Agnus Dei - Josefa de Óbidos // Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel García Márquez // Would've Could've Should've - Taylor Swift

sources: ophelia, act IV, scene V // traci brimhall, dear eros // unknown // suzanne scanlone, promising young women // destiny, fieldplates gauntlets // camille rankine, emergency management // fatima aamer bilal, being unwanted is a language // unknown

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

Franny Choi, Soft Science