Cherié

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, from "Notes on Desire"

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Meher Manda, from "Fragment as Revisionist"

Jane Hirshfield, from "The Weighing", The Asking: New and Selected Poems

Kaveh Akbar, from "There Are 7,000 Living Languages", Pilgrim Bell

Joy Sullivan, "Ghost Heart", Instructions for Traveling West

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

Kim Addonizio, from "Onset"

Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. July 1950s

— Harry Mulisch, from The Discovery of Heaven (Penguin Books, 1998)

[Text ID: "The desire to go deep: to the depths of the night, the depths of love. Love: a gap in time."]

[Text ID: “my mother and I becoming each other, / her bruises and scars passed down, / family heirlooms that will take / me decades to stop wearing,”]

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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