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

— Daphne du Maurier, from Don’t Look Now, Stories; “La Sainte-Vierge”

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

Zehra Naqvi, from The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose; “Grocery Shopping”

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939

Angela Jackson, from "The Love of Travelers," And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and New

— Mary Kate Teske

― Louise Glück, October

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Marie Howe, from What the Living Do; “Watching Television”

Donna Tartt, from The Goldfinch (2013)

Anaïs Nin, from The Voice

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

marlena by julie buntin