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Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

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the bond between a girl and their favorite fictional man is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object

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Angela Carter, from “The Lady of the House of Love”, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

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In a Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me, Ada Limón

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— J. SULLIVAN

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this is me all day

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“Everyone You've Loved,” Susannah Irene

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Up

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Being weird in my bedroom

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“Poetry is not about an event. It is the event. Art is the resistance of complacency: It always stands in opposition to numbness. That is why it just doesn’t die, poetry—despite so many death notices. It is always there, waking us up when we get numb, poking us in the eye.”

—Ilya Kaminsky, in Garth Greenwell’s “Still Dancing” interview in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (2019)

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i love being a girl