Anne Carson, Nox

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Tuesday 12 September 1939)

H.D., from Helen in Egypt

Richard Siken, Dirty Valentine

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

Adonis, from a poem titled “Unintended Worship,” featured in If Only the Sea Could Sleep

a passage from The Picture of Dorian Gray, before & after censorship by Wilde’s editors

from The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition.

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

Yannis Ritsos, from a diary entry featured in Diaries Of Exile, originally publ. in 1975

Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Chen Chen

LOVE, DESIRE, HURT, KNIVES, BLOOD.

Richard Siken / 红月 Red Moon (Detail) - Huang Guangjian / x / can't we just leave the monster alive - TXT / 'Ariel' by Aneleh, published in the tide rises, the tide falls journal / Yves Olade, from When Rome Falls; Bloodsport, 2017 / Jane Hirshfield, Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant

feel and listen, faiz ahmed faiz (trans. sain sucha) // salomé, oscar wilde (trans. alfred douglas).

Paul Eluard, “Victory for Guernica”, Selected Poems (bilingual ed. trans. Gilbert Bowen) // Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment // Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird // Paul Eluard, “No More Alone”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen) // Nikita Gill, More Notes on Survival // To Be Alive, Gregory Ott // Road to Hell (reprise), Hadestown // Sweet, Charles Bukowski // Anäis Nin

what resembles the grave but isn’t, anne boyer // i didn’t apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah).