Jenny Offill just knows

so long making out and patty cake hello ebay so long foot massage kiosk @ the mall hello foam roller on the wall so long snuggles so long salsa class so long moshing so long public mineral baths hello face mask hello hello

Linda Gregg and no one else

I feel so strange

"Agosto. Contraponientes de melocotón y azúcar, y el sol dentro de la tarde, como el hueso en una fruta. La panocha guarda intacta su risa amarilla y dura. Agosto. Los niños comen pan moreno y rica luna".

Deeply unfair that I can't just go home and read Glück poems in bed for the rest of the day.

Anybody else spend the long weekend weeping to the leibestod from Tristan und Isolde on repeat?

Where were you when you first heard the phrase “stoned wheat thin” ?

B: Wonton soup? I really can’t say enough good things about it.

Got the iconic “Mona from friends” haircut! It actually only looks good on Mona!

was not ready for this today 💔

I want to send a big thank you to Houston Poet Laureate @slippingplace for sharing my poem as part of the celebration of National Poetry Month. It's a great honor.

A lot a lot of gorgeousness from Robin in this issue of Wildness from Platypus Press readwildness.com/26/walter-meas…

Death to "All The Places You'll Go"

My father walked for 8 nights (so as not to get fired upon during the day) from Kabul to the border of Pakistan through harsh, mountainous terrain. Hardly any food. In America, he worked at Safeway and Giant for more than 30 years. He is a refugee. He is my hero.

"It was winter in Massachusetts, and so, like every other place with snow on the ground, small stars and the thin moon hanging above, it never quite got dark." From TYR's Poem of the Week, "Inheritance," by Kelan Nee: yalereview.org/article/kelan-…

For Vox, I wrote about abortion and economic justice. Without the ability to choose when and whether we have children, there can never be freedom and justice for all. vox.com/platform/amp/t…