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It’s World Poetry Day, so I pulled together a few poems I’ve been sitting with lately. Some are old favourites, some are newer discoveries — all of them made me pause.

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Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1 “People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and ...

#MaryKarr 's astonishing letter (as a 10 year old) that I posted is part of a Paris Review 'inner-view'. Here it is in full, enjoy!

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In the spirit of mixing up the Bluesky feed, for the next twenty days I'm going to post one poem a day that has stayed with me. 16/20 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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My vow to get myself through these next 4 years.

"...so that you’re constantly guzzling beauty, so that you’re steeped in it like a fruitcake in good brandy. You’re making an altar for yourself every day."
-Mary Karr

Day 11: vow
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Tableau “Dans un café (L’absinthe)” d'Edgar Degas (1873). Cette scène se déroule au café de la Nouvelle Athènes, place Pigalle, point de ralliement des Impressionnistes. Il représente Ellen Andrée, actrice, le regard vague face à un verre d’absinthe, et Marcellin Desboutin, peintre et graveur.

Prochain combat en faveur de l'égalité des sexes : rendre glamour l'écrivaine alcoolique. #ElizabethBishop #AnneSexton #MayaAngelou #LuciaBerlin #CarsonMcCullers #ShirleyJackson #JaneBowles #JeanRhys #PatriciaHighsmith #MargueriteDuras #MaryKarr #LeslieJamison

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it." – Mary Karr 🖤

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6

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