Friday
Pause
Archive:
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April 2024
- Apr 26, 2024 Only a Little While — Ōtomo no Yakamochi
- Apr 19, 2024 Tonight We Die As a Family — Mohammed El Kurd (2024)
- Apr 12, 2024 Motto — Bertolt Brecht
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March 2024
- Mar 29, 2024 Notes from the Other Side — Jane Kenyon (1993)
- Mar 22, 2024 This Too Shall Pass — Kim Addonizio (2024)
- Mar 8, 2024 If I Must Die — Refaat Alareer
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February 2024
- Feb 9, 2024 The Sick Wife — Jane Kenyon (1997)
- Feb 2, 2024 Internet Support Group — Chelsea B. Desautels (2021)
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January 2024
- Jan 26, 2024 Place — W.S. Merwin
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December 2023
- Dec 22, 2023 Love Poem: Donika — Donika Kelly (2016)
- Dec 8, 2023 Our Dangerous Sweetness — Amir Rabiyah
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November 2023
- Nov 10, 2023 Tuesday — Fady Joudah
- Nov 3, 2023 Poem — Langston Hughes
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October 2023
- Oct 20, 2023 Enough For Me — Fadwa Tuqan
- Oct 13, 2023 Running Orders — Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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September 2023
- Sep 22, 2023 Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love. — Gabrielle Calvocoressi
- Sep 8, 2023 September — Kyla Jamieson
- Sep 1, 2023 Three Months Since — Jade Cho
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August 2023
- Aug 25, 2023 Adrift — Mark Nepo
- Aug 4, 2023 Grief is a Sudden Room — Margaret Ray
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July 2023
- Jul 28, 2023 Only as the Day Is Long — Dorianne Laux
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June 2023
- Jun 30, 2023 I Still Have Everything You Gave Me — Naomi Shihab Nye
- Jun 23, 2023 Island — Langston Hughes
- Jun 2, 2023 The Truth the Dead Know — Anne Sexton
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May 2023
- May 12, 2023 OBIT [Sadness] — Victoria Chang
- May 5, 2023 The Gist Of It 大意如此 — Zhang Lin 张 琳
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April 2023
- Apr 28, 2023 A Spell to Banish Grief — Saeed Jones
- Apr 21, 2023 Gun Shy — Mahogany L. Browne
- Apr 14, 2023 The Widow’s Lament in Springtime — William Carlos Williams
- Apr 7, 2023 Bliss and Grief — Marie Ponsot
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March 2023
- Mar 31, 2023 Carry — Billy Collins
- Mar 17, 2023 Ponder This — Joe Braindard
- Mar 10, 2023 I Plant Some Flowers Without You — Rumi
- Mar 3, 2023 Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn’t Breaking — Rosemerry Trommer
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February 2023
- Feb 17, 2023 Hummingbird — Robin Becker
- Feb 3, 2023 "Time does not bring relief; you all have lied" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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January 2023
- Jan 27, 2023 The Only Thing — Wendy Xu
- Jan 20, 2023 December — Michael Miller
- Jan 13, 2023 No Goodbyes — Paul Monette
- Jan 6, 2023 I knew something was wrong — Dorothea Grossman
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December 2022
- Dec 30, 2022 My Death — Tim Dlugos
- Dec 23, 2022 Snow Beneath Whose Chilly Softness — Emily Dickinson
- Dec 16, 2022 How’d Your Parents Die Again? — Fatimah Asghar
- Dec 9, 2022 In Passing — Lisel Mueller
- Dec 2, 2022 W.S. Merwin — Separation
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November 2022
- Nov 25, 2022 Pulse — Megan Falley
- Nov 18, 2022 The Last Hour — Sharon Olds
- Nov 11, 2022 Theodora — Ursula K. LeGuin
- Nov 4, 2022 I turned around — Trista Mateer
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October 2022
- Oct 21, 2022 the lesson of the falling leaves — Lucille Clifton
- Oct 14, 2022 In Blackwater Woods — Mary Oliver
- Oct 7, 2022 Flatline — Margaret Atwood
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September 2022
- Sep 30, 2022 I Go Down to the Shore — Mary Oliver
- Sep 23, 2022 Memorial IV— Audre Lorde
- Sep 16, 2022 When I remember — Rumi
- Sep 9, 2022 Taking Care — Callista Buchen
- Sep 2, 2022 The Dead — Billy Collins
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August 2022
- Aug 26, 2022 A Son’s Goodbye to His Mother — Wesley Dawson Negrón (2020)
- Aug 19, 2022 Orbit — Sarah Ens
- Aug 5, 2022 Dudley Wright — Franz Wright
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July 2022
- Jul 8, 2022 OBIT [My Mother's Teeth] — Victoria Chang
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June 2022
- Jun 24, 2022 Motherhood — Georgia Douglas Johnson (1922)
- Jun 17, 2022 Weekend in the Underworld — Franz Wright
- Jun 3, 2022 What to Write After Another School Shooting— Kate Baer
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May 2022
- May 27, 2022 In the Morning, Before Anything Bad Happens — Molly Brodak (2017)
- May 13, 2022 After the Fire — Ada Limón
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April 2022
- Apr 29, 2022 The Burying Beetle — Ada Limón
- Apr 15, 2022 productivity anxiety ― Rupi Kaur
- Apr 8, 2022 April — Alex Dimitrov
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March 2022
- Mar 25, 2022 James — W. S. Merwin
- Mar 18, 2022 We Lived Happily During the War — Ilya Kaminsky (2013)
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February 2022
- Feb 4, 2022 Let Me Die a Youngman's Death — Roger McGough
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January 2022
- Jan 28, 2022 The Dead Don't Care — Nessie Quiambao
- Jan 14, 2022 Dust — Dorianne Laux
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December 2021
- Dec 31, 2021 i am running into a new year — Lucille Clifton
- Dec 17, 2021 The Woman's Mourning Song — bell hooks
- Dec 10, 2021 My Dead Friends — Marie Howe
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November 2021
- Nov 26, 2021 When They Buried the Children — Abigail Echo-Hawk
- Nov 19, 2021 As Benefits a Man — Langston Hughes (1974)
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October 2021
- Oct 29, 2021 we will wear / new bones again — Lucille Clifton
- Oct 22, 2021 Urn — Dorianne Laux (2020)
- Oct 15, 2021 Elegy for Ramón Sijé — Miguel Hernández (1963) translated by Edwin Honig
- Oct 8, 2021 Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. — Gabrielle Calvocoressi (2021)
- Oct 1, 2021 Making a Fist — Naomi Shihab Nye (1988)
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September 2021
- Sep 17, 2021 Detail of the Woods—Richard Siken (2011)
- Sep 10, 2021 The Uses of Sorrow—Mary Oliver
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August 2021
- Aug 27, 2021 Grief – Barbara Crooker (2013)
- Aug 6, 2021 Don’t Hesitate—Mary Oliver
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July 2021
- Jul 30, 2021 What the Living Do—Marie Howe
- Jul 23, 2021 A Meeting—Wendell Berry
- Jul 9, 2021 OBIT [Friendships]—Victoria Chang (2018)
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June 2021
- Jun 25, 2021 One Art—Elizabeth Bishop
- Jun 18, 2021 For My Own Protection — Essex Hemphill (1992)
- April 2021
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March 2021
- Mar 26, 2021 Tomorrow is a Place — Sanna Wani
- Mar 19, 2021 Learning to love America — Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
- February 2021
- January 2021
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December 2020
- Dec 18, 2020 When Death Comes—Mary Oliver
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November 2020
- Nov 20, 2020 Spoiler — Hala Alyan
- Nov 6, 2020 The Well of Grief—David Whyte
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October 2020
- Oct 30, 2020 Love After Love—Derek Walcott
- Oct 23, 2020 Small Kindnesses—Danusha Laméris
- Oct 9, 2020 Good Bones—Maggie Smith
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September 2020
- Sep 18, 2020 Give Me This—Ada Limón
- Sep 4, 2020 On A Pink Moon—Ada Limón
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August 2020
- Aug 28, 2020 We Shake with Joy — Mary Oliver
- Aug 21, 2020 On Earth—Franz Wright
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July 2020
- Jul 24, 2020 Leaving the Hospital — Anya Silver (2011)
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June 2020
- Jun 26, 2020 The Window — Rumi
- Jun 12, 2020 When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving — Reginald Dwayne Betts (2019)
- Jun 5, 2020 A Small Needful Fact — Ross Gay (2015)
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May 2020
- May 29, 2020 The End and the Beginning — Wislawa Szymborska
- May 22, 2020 Instructions on Not Giving Up — Ada Limón (1976)
- May 15, 2020 Sometimes — Sheenagh Pugh (1990)
- May 8, 2020 Hospital in Oregon — Marilyn Chin (2018)
- May 1, 2020 The Peace of Wild Things — Wendell Berry
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April 2020
- Apr 24, 2020 Pandemania — Daniel Halpern
- Apr 17, 2020 Lost — David Wagoner
- Apr 10, 2020 Anesthesia — Hillary Gravendyk
- Apr 3, 2020 Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale — Dan Albergotti
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March 2020
- Mar 20, 2020 Salvage — Rachel Mckibbens
- Mar 13, 2020 The Thing Is — Ellen Bass
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A weekly reflection / reading / poem on grief & loss for personal contemplation.