A Dose of
Diet Water:
A monthly dose of curated Diet Water from your editors to you.
April
Spring poetry recommendations from the editors to you.
Ocean Vuong
'How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.'
Kaveh Akbar
"I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful
I will name it quickly before it floats away”
Richard Siken
“Because people die. The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.”
Chen Chen
“You are the ice cream sandwich connoisseur of your generation.
Blessed are your floral shorteralls, your deeply pink fanny pack with travel-size lint roller just in case.
Level of splendiferous in your outfit: 200.”
Danez Smith
“Please, don't call us dead, call us alive someplace better. we say our own names when we pray. we go out for sweets & come back.”
