SHOUT IT TO THE SKIES

Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas

Tony Hoagland, from Application for Release from the Dream; “The Complex Sentence”

Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Experience”

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to her mother Aurelia, dated 13 March 1955, from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

Mary Oliver, from “Reckless Poem,” in New And Selected Poems: Volume Two

Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs

Text ID: I must build up a strong world within myself, so rich and so full that it will be enough. I must find all things in myself, create them. I must reach my own climaxes of strength and creation with my work.

gnaw at the heartbeat - wenyi xue / moon song - phoebe bridgers / let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin / @strawberry-crocodile / nice pup - chloe moriondo / @ashstfu / @valtsv / @inkskinned / it will come back - hozier / @twoheadedfawnn / @/simplyrotten / clean slated state - the altogether / speeches for dr frankenstein - margaret atwood / faulty - leila chatti / belovéd - yves olade / against the kitchen floor - will wood / st bernard - lincoln / imposter syndrome - sidney gish

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People

Joy Sullivan, from “Soup”, Instructions for Traveling West