— Leilah Ali

— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems: 1976 - 1986; “Half-Hanged Mary,”

— Becoming Light, ‘The Evidence’ by Erica Jong

Yves Bonnefoy, tr. by Anthony Rudolf, from The Selected Poems; “The Ravine,”

— Jamaal May, from “The Whetting of Teeth,” The Big Book of Exit Strategies

— Hanif Abdurraqib, from his poem ‘The Prestige’, published at Poets.Org

— Charles Bukowski

— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

— Strato, tr. by W. G. Shepherd, from “The Greek Antholohy and Other Ancient Epigrams,” 

Ingeborg Bachmann, from “Leaving Port” (tr. Mark Anderson)

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”