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Retake: Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass, Lana del Rey

Notice itβs another year where spring is over and summer has a way of making an entrance. And here I am, on my bed, listening to Lana Del Rey when I should be rereading Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. I say βshouldβ not because the poems require discipline or rigor, but because they seem β read more
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On the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

First, I feel compelled to admitβthough not confess, because that would imply atonement Iβm not yet ready to enactβthat I have been struggling to read. Not just to read as one opens a book and follows its trail, but to remain within that realm long enough for thought to deepen and echo. This is not β read more
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Retake: Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

Perhaps the most honest way to begin is with a disclaimer: I am not an authority on poetry. I make no claims to be oneβnot in any formal, spiritual, or social mediaβverified sense. And yet, with a bachelor’s degree in literature and a masterβs in creative writing, Iβve accumulated what one might call situational fluency. β read more