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"their and my impossibilities"
Brautigan, Rouzeau, Edson, O'Hara, Atkins
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"Stimulus at energy sweep"
Hernandez, McDonough, Mann, Cornell, Dickinson
Nov 19 • 
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"Of an everywhere that the trees described"
Roethke, Hongo, Garrigue, Merwin, Olson
Nov 17 • 
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Craft: James Wright & Leslie Marmon Silko
Timothy Snyder, a scholar on authoritarianism and expert on Ukraine, advises that one way to combat tyranny is to maintain a private life, particularly…
Nov 15 • 
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"and the thunder answered"
Thomas, Wallschlaeger, Clifton, Sandig, Komunyakaa
Nov 14 • 
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"Space back into space restored"
Bly, Lauterbach, Roberson, Hull, Dickinson
Nov 12 • 
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"the Norway of the year"
Dickinson, Tranströmer, Niedecker, Osier, Radnóti
Nov 10 • 
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Craft: Rochelle Owens
Rochelle Owens (b.
Nov 8 • 
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"Names swallowed by the cold"
Brautigan, Sze, Shapero, Kunitz, Tranströmer
Nov 7 • 
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"ruderal hair, sister to this"
Boruch, Lee, Valentine, Bentley, Willis, Green
Nov 5 • 
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"Civilities of the aftermath"
Palmer, Lorca, Merrill, Erdrich, Rukeyser
Nov 3 • 
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Craft: Elise Cowen
This essay was originally posted January 14, 2023.
Nov 1 • 
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