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We’re here! And we have new poems by Maria Santa Poggi and Lorenzo in the nest waiting for you (🎨: Genesis Báez, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art):

(Photos by Marcus Schneider)

“I’ve sat still, hunched / my nails like / animal deep ragged moons..” Read “Swamp Molly” by Makayla Gay, in the nest now (🎨: Michelle Jezierski; photo by Marcus Schneider)

“Lately, I’ve been feeling like Jesus’s sister. / Who knew that Jesus even had a sister?" Read “Driving Poem” by Makayla Gay, in the nest now (🎨: Michelle Jezierski; photo by Marcus Schneider)

We have new poems in the nest this week by Makayla Gay (🎨: Michelle Jezierski; photo by Marcus Schneider)

William Baziotes believed that the artist’s spirit was far more important than his subject matter and allowed the image to “reveal itself” on the canvas as he painted. His work accompanies new poetry by @coloradoKatey (🎨: Courtesy of the @whitneymuseum)

“love will play out like rainwater / along the gutters of our street damning / the leaves in their river.” Read “November has September hands” by @coloradoKatey, in the nest now (🎨: William Baziotes; Courtesy of the @whitneymuseum)

“I have tried / to be good. Pour the wine, wash the sand / from my calves." Read “Balm” by @coloradoKatey in the nest now (🎨: William Baziotes; Courtesy of the @whitneymuseum)

We have new poems in the nest this week by @coloradoKatey (🎨: William Baziotes; Courtesy of the @whitneymuseum)

"Don’t be sheep. Be who you are, and be the best that you can be – whoever you are and whatever you do." Fernando “Ski” Romero’s art accompanies a new story by Phi Le: (🎨: Courtesy of Pop International Galleries)

“I have an utterly forgettable face, and I generally don’t like to say much. That’s fine. I just do what I’m supposed to.” Read a new story by Phi Le, in the nest now (🎨: Fernando "Ski" Romero; courtesy of Pop International Galleries)

“You don’t need museum labels or plaques. If people perceive that they have an enhanced circumstance, as opposed to what they had before, that’s all right with me.” Dan Flavin’s work accompanies poetry by Fran Matos and @Noirbut (🎨: c/o @whitneymuseum)

“There are night patterns and day patterns and / butterflies evolving from moths after being like / what if we’re awake during the day…” Read “LANTERN” by Fran Matos, in the nest now (🎨: Dan Flavin; courtesy of the @whitneymuseum)

”lifted us up / into a multicolored sky. A song did / this, when sloshed into the half-truths / of teenhood” Read a new poem by @Noirbut in the nest now (🎨: Dan Flavin; courtesy of the @whitneymuseum)

We have new poems in the nest this week by Fran Matos and @Noirbut (🎨: Dan Flavin; courtesy of the @whitneymuseum)

🐦 “How to Eat a Frozen Persimmon” by @zasdfgaer