i wish i could be a better me

Alex Dimitrov, from "A Living"

Donald Miller, Holly Warburton, L. M. Montgomery, E. M. Forster, Anne Sexton, Kaye Donachie, Anne Sexton, Emilio Hernandez Martin, Maggie Stiefvater, Nina MacLaughlin (The Paris Review)

Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

from John Keats’s love letter to Fanny Brawne Tristan and Isolt (Death), Rogelio de Egusquiza The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Leighton Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, Alexandre Cabanel

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

"Embroider My Face and Name", Henrik Edoyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath’ / Vilhelm Hammershøi / Nicole Krauss, from ‘The History of Love’ / Ramon Casas / Joy Harjo, from ‘Speaking Tree’ / D S (saatchiart) / Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ‘The Idiot’ / Aleardo Terzi / Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Bell Jar’

Don't Let Them See Me Like This, Jasmine Gibson

— Arthur Miller, The Crucible

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Virginia Woolf (”The Waves”), Katrien de Blauwer (”When I Was a Boy 36 (2017)”), Fernando Pessoa (“The Book of Disquiet”), Nickie Zimov (”Daily 16″), Anaïs Nin (”The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934″), Nickie Zimov (”Exile”), Mary Oliver (”October”), Mia Song (”oykot”)

"With blood stained lips ...", Hovhannes Toumanyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

— Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

Kim Addonizio, from “Tell Me”, Tell Me