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Mary Ruefle is the author of My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, 2008), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!, (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and published in A Little White Shadow (2006)

Joy Sullivan @joysullivanpoet My Mother Asks How I'm Doing  with Just Whisky and Cats None of us were built for this, after all. Loneliness enters the house and takes  off her boots. The days lose light.  I keep hoping for the postman-  his everyday footsteps, a kind of friendliness. There is no name for this kind of breaking. It's November and my neighbor sets off fireworks.  The moon is an aching white eye. Some nights,  I sleep inside your old shirt. Even wolves need a soft body to curl toward in the dark. From Instructions For Traveling West The Dial Press, 2024. #poetryisnotaluxury