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Provisions

Provisions

Illustration: Anya Levy
Provisions
Provisions #1: “languages I didn’t know I wanted to know”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Solmaz Sharif, Mary Karr, and June Jordan.
Momtaza Mehri, Chase Berggrun, and Essy Stone
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Provisions #2: “The world begins at a kitchen table.”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Donika Kelly, Joy Harjo, and Nâzim Hikmet.
Cameron Awkward-Rich, Ariana Katz, and Claire Schwartz
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Provisions #3: “Pain was everywhere. Sprang out of everything”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, beyza ozer, and Gregg Bordowitz.
Wayne Koestenbaum, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Lara Mimosa Montes
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Provisions #4: “here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Wang Wei, Enheduanna, and Ross Gay.
Wendy Xu, Kaveh Akbar, and Ashon T. Crawley
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Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”
Meditations in a crisis on writing by René Ménil, Ari Banias, and Andrea Rexilius.
Saretta Morgan, Samuel Ace, and Carolina Ebeid
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Provisions #6: “In the exhalations of Americans there is a crumbling empire”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, and Etel Adnan.
Kazim Ali, Joshua Gutterman Tranen, and Zaina Alsous
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Provisions #7: “repair a world or build / a new one inside my body”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Solmaz Sharif, Pablo Neruda, and Cameron Awkward-Rich.
Kamran Javadizadeh, Robin Beth Schaer, and Laurel Chen
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Provisions #8: “If I could just leave the old things to their trembling”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Canisia Lubrin, Wisława Szymborska, and Kenyan Freedom Fighters.
Christina Sharpe, Angel Nafis, and Ken Chen

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