Paul’s Reviews > The Best American Poetry 2024 > Status Update

it’s writing like this that I think about all night. these authors are the most artistic individuals that i’ve read in recent memory

i feel like fucking shit dude omg

“If you were always here, brothers, you wouldn’t have danced feet bloody under a full moon.”

how many times is this book gonna force me think about it? i’m so grateful for what i have, but I’m so scared for what I won’t. i love everyone around me so much man, i’m hurting BAD.

shoutout to Yusuf Komunyakaa

“What have we made? What are we making? And who or what made us that we should make such things as we do and did?”

Then I Googled “Marie Howe bibliography” and yeah she’s fucking amazing

“In the future, our homes will be inside us. We’ll fill the rooms with art and strangers”