Courage, Dear Heart.

The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

Joanna Klink, from “Night Sky”, The Nightfields

Maya C. Popa, “Dear Life”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

Maya C. Popa, from “Dear Life”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

— Jennifer S. Cheng, So We Must Meet Apart

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Staying Quiet"

— Lina A.

— Kait Rokowski, from "The Civil Guillotine" in So Much For the Mercy Kill

Maya C. Popa, from “Spring”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate”, Devotions

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟻 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

L. A. Johnson, from "Birthmark"

—Andrea Gibson, "Good Light," Lord of the Butterflies

— Richard Siken, Editors Page: The Long and the Short of It

Joanna Klink, from “On Diminishment”, The Nightfields

Caitlyn Siehl, from What We Buried; “For the dinner table”

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken

The Hurting Kind - Ada Limón

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