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From the magazine:On Disgust: Gurgling Pits
By Jane Wong
Disgusting, isn’t it, how much we want to be loved?
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From the magazine:On Nostalgia: Ever Cleaner, Ever More PillowyBy Boris DralyukSurely the experience of immigration reinforced my predilections, but some people are simply born looking backward.
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From the magazine:On Fear: Radiant and BrimmingBy Hannah BonnerWhere my ex deemed me unmaternal because of my writing, the opposite is true: I’m no good to anyone if I don’t preserve this one thing for myself.
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From the magazine:On Self-Loathing: My Particular InvolvementBy Jameson FitzpatrickWhen, long after puberty had done its work, I was finally able to re-admit my original understanding of myself to myself, I saw my self-loathing in a new light.
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From the magazine:On Heartbreak: The Beautiful Half of a Golden Hurt
By Willie PerdomoI’ve heard it said that if poets are not writing about death, they’re not writing about anything; the same could be said for love.
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From the magazine:On Shame: In the Realm of Death and AweBy Elaine KahnMy writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
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From the magazine:On Neediness: Midnight ChimesBy Will HarrisWhat other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
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From the magazine:On Despair: It’s All a CharadeBy Richard HellIf you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
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From the magazine:On Contempt: I Want to Be LikedBy Randall MannI want reading a poem to be a bit like risky sex.
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From the magazine:On Pettiness: About Those Flying ButtressesBy Andrea CohenWhen asked to muse on an awkward or difficult emotion, I think: Aren’t all emotions awkward?
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From the magazine:On Irritation: Itching, Scratching, SwellingBy Graham FoustIt may be that offishness is a feature of any great poem.
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From the magazine:On Ambivalence: To Be, but to Be How?By Meghan O’RourkeIt is the voice of both our lives and our unled lives.
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From the magazine:On Loneliness: To YouBy Carl PhillipsLoneliness, then, means understanding—and accepting, though some days this is only slightly easier than others—that no one knows me.
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From the magazine:On Crestfallenness: A Pilgrim, Not a Tractor
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From the magazine:On Boredom: How I Found Out My Parents Were Siblings
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From the magazine:On Panic: Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know
By Wayne Koestenbaum