Somewhere else entirely

[amnesiaguy]

The Long and Short of It, Richard Siken

[warmfigure]

[coffeeacademia]

i find it so beautiful how we all read the same poetry and miss different people

[rosechata]

pastel prairies

[excessivebookshelf]

I hope when people ask what you’re going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you’ll say: ‘Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;’ or maybe just: ‘Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.’ And then smile very serenely until they say, ‘Oh.’

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (via excessivebookshelf)

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from “exhibits from The American Water Museum”, Postcolonial Love Poem

[geryone]

The Idea of An Entire Life, Billy-Ray Belcourt

[feral-ballad]

Kapka Kassabova, from Someone Else’s Life; “And they were both right”

[squeakowl]

Art by Oh Jess Marie (source)

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from a diary entry featured in The Selected Diaries of Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius

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[havingapoemwithyou]

Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

[coffee-and-quotes]

“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[stillgotscars]

there it goes - maisie peters

[kosmogrl]

[flowerytale]

Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay

[jorisasworld]