Living Library

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joseph fasano

[havingapoemwithyou]

temporary job by Minnie Bruce Pratt

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

[Text ID: “I wanted to put / my mouth on you / and draw out whatever toxin… / —but I understand. There are limits to love.”]

[altrbody]

Ingmar Bergman

[intactics-deactivated20250505]

what Work is the most important? the work you have to do next. narrow the scope of focus down to that singular glittering point.

[sisyphusshrugged]

How to get out of a rut

[otis-hill]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

[bright-eyed]

[flowerytale]

Frank O'Hara, from “Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)”, The Collected Poems

[itsdlevy]

“In my opinion, camp is simply a matter of doing things as if you are doing them. Diving into a swimming pool? Throw your arms heavenward and give it the full Esther Williams treatment. When you dive into a pool as if you are diving into a pool, as opposed to executing an earnest quotidian plop, the result is magical—that pool is transformed from a grody Band Aid–strewn chlorine bath into a veritable LAGOON! Smoking a cigarette? Perform the action as if you are a French existentialist.” — Simon Doonan, Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock & Loving Lou Reed

[readmydesire]

meanwhile by richard siken

[havingapoemwithyou]

i’m not faking my astonishment, honest by Paige Lewis

[silverfishcrackr]

“Upon Turning 25, A Small Nervous Breakdown” by Megan Williams

[hineinihineini-moving]

October by Mary Oliver

[roadmotel]

Aiskhylos tr. by Anne Carson, An Oresteia; “Agamemnon”

[geryone]

Night Poem, Leila Chatti

[hamletthedane]

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