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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "Upon Arrival"
Thoughts on solidarity as an enlargement of our imaginative capability.
Mar 17
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Devin Kelly
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Christina Olson's "The Thing You Fear Is Not the Thing That Kills You"
Thoughts on the paradox of it all.
Mar 10
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Devin Kelly
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Paige Lewis's "On the Train, a Man Snatches My Book"
Thoughts on the scale of who we are.
Mar 3
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Devin Kelly
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February 2024
Carrie Fountain's "The Life"
Thoughts on this, too, being a life.
Feb 25
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Devin Kelly
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Adélia Prado's "Lamentation to Move Jonathan" (translated by Jessica Goudeau)
Thoughts on more-ness and all-ness.
Feb 18
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Devin Kelly
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R. A. Villanueva's "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
Thoughts on love.
Feb 11
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Devin Kelly
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Loisa Fenichell's "Act III, Scene III"
Thoughts on stillness.
Feb 4
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Devin Kelly
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January 2024
Madeleine Cravens's "Leaving"
Thoughts on the pleasure of error.
Jan 28
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Devin Kelly
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Ben Purkert's "The Only Conversation"
Thoughts on holding.
Jan 21
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Devin Kelly
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Dionne Brand's "Verso 49"
Thoughts on a poetry of discomfort.
Jan 14
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Devin Kelly
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Fady Joudah's "Mimesis"
Thoughts on children and possibility.
Jan 7
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Devin Kelly
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December 2023
Mary Oliver's "Some Questions You Might Ask"
Thoughts on a life full of questions.
Dec 31, 2023
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Devin Kelly
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