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Devotions & fever dreams on poetics, memory, place, & body — as well as a literary interview series, Ruminations.

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  1. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Visiting poet John Keats' deathbed in Rome (opens the original)

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    On our last day in Rome, we dragged our exhausted corpses over to Piazza di Spagna, where I climbed up the 135 soft, white Spanish Steps. You’d never guess that the night before was rain-drenched and dark and relentlessly thunderous. This day was as blue and as hot and as bright as it gets. This was Keats weather. “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” — Love Letters

  2. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Missives from beautiful, bloated Rome (opens the original)

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    Rome. Bloated of bodies, golden light spilling down long, windless alleys. The Temple of Hadrian looking at us, looking at it. Heat like being choked, heat like sex. Indulgence everywhere, and I know I am just one of the carnal many, but I am trying to offer myself to Rome—how?—rather than extract from it. I am trying to listen to it.The very moment I set foot on Italian earth, my period—which was late, of course—arrives, like an exhale. My body knows this terrain on a cellular level; a key that

  3. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    Literary ghosts of Montparnasse cemetery (opens the original)

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    I arrived in Europe a few days ago. Yesterday I was still—still!—in the lethargic abyss of jet lag, which I cannot ever seem to shake, and which happens whenever I travel. But yesterday afternoon, I pulled myself from the bed when I realized my favorite writers were at Montparnasse. I had to make the pilgrimage, of course. I walked in through the cemetery’s gorgeous gateways, brick walls under a coverlet of dense green, little blue birds flitting through the bushes. I found her first.I found my

  4. Issue · Jul 21, 2026

    Summer of anhedonia (opens the original)

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