Provisions

Illustration: Anya Levy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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.

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