@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social I was listening to one of your past Close Readings and the John Hollander quote came up about a poem justifying its own breaking of the silence. I knew the quote but wanted to track down the source but having a devil of a time with it. Any help?

Haven't posted on this platform for awhile, but wanted to share this bit of creative nonfiction that's now out in the world. I am deeply grateful to the editors of @anmlymag.bsky.social for giving it the light of day.

anmly.org/ap41/travis-...

"Hope is fragile, but hard to kill."

~Andre Agassi, a few minutes ago during the broadcast of the French Open semifinal between Carlos Alcaraz and Lorenzo Musetti

"When you try to stay in the moment, the next moment has a way of taking care of itself."

~Sterling K. Brown

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

~MLK

www.valpo.edu/mlk/

“Yes, I pray, and so do you, and you know it: when everything goes badly, we throw ourselves into prayer, to rediscover the atmosphere of our first communion. And you do it, you do too.”

~Henri Matisse to Pablo Picasso

Gary Simmons, Garage Lab. St Louis Art Museum. 19 Nov 2023, 3:18 CST.

My current amazement is Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin. youtu.be/LqLflZ3EOQ0?...

And so it begins.

“Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle.”

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

RIP, Louise Glück.

I ask you, how much beauty
can a person bear?

(from ”Baskets”)

To continue, another essay.

www.essaydaily.org/2021/07/the-...

To begin my time here, an essay.

aftertheart.com/2021/06/15/o...