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Mikko Harvey's "For M"
Thoughts on tenderness and surprise and lightness.
Devin Kelly
May 8
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Yanyi's "Detail"
Thoughts on attention and how we share it.
Devin Kelly
Apr 10
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Linda Gregg's "We Manage Most When We Manage Small"
On two years of writing about poems.
Devin Kelly
Jun 12
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Mary Oliver's "In Blackwater Woods"
Thoughts on sentimentality.
Devin Kelly
Jan 30
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Leon Stokesbury's "Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain"
Thoughts on the new year.
Devin Kelly
Jan 2
26
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Adam Zagajewski's "Transformation" (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
Thoughts on not writing.
Devin Kelly
Sep 19, 2021
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W.S. Merwin's "Elegy"
On a year of writing about poems.
Devin Kelly
Jun 13, 2021
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Jenny George's "Reprieve"
Thoughts on cruelty and light.
Devin Kelly
Jan 23
25
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Hua Xi's "Heaven"
Thoughts on what is enough.
Devin Kelly
Mar 20
24
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Sean Thomas Dougherty's "Grief's Familiar Rooms"
Thoughts on grief.
Devin Kelly
May 29
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Ada Limón's "The Quiet Machine"
Thoughts on quietude.
Devin Kelly
Oct 31, 2021
13
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Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
Thoughts on grief and love and language.
Devin Kelly
May 15
22
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