Poems I Love
I've recently discovered a love of poetry. There is so much richness to discover! The poems I read now are nothing like what I read in school; these poems speak to me, speak to my own experience as a woman or the experiences of marginalized groups, speak to relationships both tender and terrible.
I've discovered new-to-me poems through a poetry class I'm taking at the South of Downtown Art Hub, through The Slowdown Show, a five minute poem-a-day podcast released every weekday, through buying books of poems, and browsing slam poetry on YouTube.
Here are a few of my favorite poems, in no particular order.
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📺 Explaining My Depression to My Mother by Sabrina Benaim
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📺 Shrinking Women by Lily Myers
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Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris
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Using a Hula Hoop Can Get You Abducted by Aliens by Matthea Harvey
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📺 Pocket-Sized Feminism by Blythe Baird
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Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit by Erica Jong
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📺 If I Was Your God by Dave McAlinden
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📺 Sum of Her Parts by Desireé Dallagiacomo
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📺 Black Boy Auditions For His Own Funeral by Gabriel Ramirez
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📺 Some Things You Need to Know Before Dating Me by Jamie Mortara