Linda

“Rent goes up and up and up. The family-owned boedgas keep on closing, replaced by artisanal cupcake shops and overpriced organic grocery stores whose customers hurry past the homeless and the flowers laid on street corners for Black boys shot by the cops. Some people go their whole lives in New York shutting their eyes to the fact that this city was built for the people who took this land from the Lenape.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

“The poems circle the same question: how one’s soul could possibly endure when life’s beauty vanishes from reach.”
― Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

“Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,” he says. “Look at this body. My body. Or stop looking. Deny it, and deny me.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth