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Megan Williams, from "There Will Be Bad Days" [ID in ALT]

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Richard Siken, "Detail of the Fire," War of the Foxes

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I love the dead because we cannot let each other down anymore.

Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year

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— Traci Brimhall, Dear Eros

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Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "The Anguish," originally published in 2018

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susan sontag

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Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Staying Quiet"

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L. A. Johnson, from "Birthmark"

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)

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Richard Siken, "Detail of the Fire," War of the Foxes

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “The Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf,”

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Jane Hirshfield, "I Was Not, Among My Kind, Distinctive"

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Jayne Cortez, "Hungry Love"

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James Baldwin, from Another Country [ID'd]

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Forrest Gander, Mojave Ghost

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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Joanna Klink, from “On Diminishment”, The Nightfields