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Claude McKay in Paris

Claude McKay in Paris

Anne Sexton with daughter Linda (Circa 1953)

Anne Sexton with daughter Linda (Circa 1953)

Marko Marulić

Marko Marulić

luke0987654321: Can I eat what you give me. I have not earned it. Must I think of everything as earned. Now love also becomes a reward so remote from me I have only made it with my mind.“For Love,” Robert Creeley (photo 1972)

luke0987654321:

Can I eat
what you give me. I
have not earned it. Must
I think of everything

as earned. Now love also
becomes a reward so
remote from me I have
only made it with my mind.

“For Love,” Robert Creeley (photo 1972)

Sir Geoffrey Hill, nominated for the Forward Prize

Sir Geoffrey Hill, nominated for the Forward Prize

I’m a poet, and I know it.

I’m a poet, and I know it.

Allen Ginsberg photo booth

Allen Ginsberg photo booth