"Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine." 

poetry journal

The poem <n>The Thing Is</n> by <n>Ellen Bass</n>.

<n>Ahmed Hjazy</n> photographs street art in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, 2015, for <n>Savoir Flair</n>.

<n>Love Poem</n> by <n>Linda Pastan</n>, from her 1988 collection <n>The Imperfect Paradise</n>.

A passage from the book <n>The Mountain Is You</n> by author <n>Brianna Wiest</n>.

The poem <n>Wilderness</n> from the collection <n>The Unswept Room</n> by poet <n>Sharon Olds</n>.

<n>Love Poem</n> by <n>Nick Martino</n>, published in <n>Passages North</n> in 2024.

A quote from the book <n>HUMANIFESTATIONS</n>.

The poem <n>Night Bird</n> by <n>Danusha Laméris</n>, published in <n>Poetry</n> magazine in May 2023.

The poem <n>Keeping Things Whole</n> by <n>Mark Strand</n>.

“Keep breaking your heart until it opens.” — Rumi

A quote from <n>Hilary Mantel</n>'s <n>Art of Fiction</n> interview in <n>The Paris Review</n>, Spring 2015.

A still from the 1966 film <n>Malenkiy prints</n>, directed by <n>Arūnas Žebriūnas</n>.

A quote by <n>Maya Angelou</n> from her 1990 'Art of Fiction' interview in <n>The Paris Review</n>.

The poem 'PASSAGE' from <n>Victoria Chang</n>'s 2022 book <n>The Trees Witness Everything</n>, published by <n>Copper Canyon Press</n>.

<n>Winter Poem</n> by <n>Nikki Giovanni</n>, published in 1996.