Poems I Like

I've been exploring poetry for the last few years. 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 started learning about poetry as an adult through a 5 week poetry class at the (former) South of Downtown Art Hub in Lincoln, through The Slowdown Show, a five minute poem-a-day podcast released every weekday, through buying books of poems and checking out many more from the library, and browsing slam poetry on YouTube.

Here are a few of my favorite poems, in no particular order. (Note this list is due for an update with things I've enjoyed since originally making this page! Stay tuned.)

• 📺 Explaining My Depression to My Mother by Sabrina Benaim
• 📺 Shrinking Women by Lily Myers
• We Lived Happily During The War by Ilya KaminskyListen on the Slowdown Show
• A Small Needful Fact by Ross GayListen on the Slowdown Show
• Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris
• Using a Hula Hoop Can Get You Abducted by Aliens by Matthea HarveyListen on the Slowdown Show
• 📺 Pocket-Sized Feminism by Blythe Baird
• Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit by Erica Jong
• Habitation by Margaret Atwood
• Immigrant Can't Write Poetry by Wang PingListen on the Slowdown Show
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe ShelleyListen on the Slowdown Show
• Indigo by Ellen Bass
• 📺 If I Was Your God by Dave McAlinden
• 📺 White Heaven by Jahman Hill
• 📺 Sum of Her Parts by Desireé Dallagiacomo
• 📺 Black Boy Auditions For His Own Funeral by Gabriel Ramirez
• 📺 This Woman by Alysia Harris
• 📺 Table Games by Sarah Kay
• 📺 The Type by Sarah Kay
• 📺 Some Things You Need to Know Before Dating Me by Jamie Mortara