Richard Siken

“Shame thrives in silence, and wants more of it. The language of shame is silence. I wanted to incorporate silence, and silencing, into a poem, and was able to approximate that by blacking out language. What is unsaid becomes a visible absence—the hole I was writing around.”

— Leila Chatti, from an interview with Sneha Subramanian Kanta in Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (via skgroutpoetry)

ask polly

probably the best advice I've ever got was from my grandpa when I moved from my town and started a university, he told me to leave the house everytime when I start to feel down, just to go to the park, a supermarket, a bookstore, to even drive in a bus or tram, just be around other people because staying at home all the time kills you; and you know he was right

Kaveh Akbar, from “ Pilgrim Bell”, Pilgrim Bell

self portrait against bed wallpaper by Richard Siken

What Remains, Hannah Arendt

Wrong Norma, Anne Carson

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

did we meet too early? i wish we met earlier