if you're trying to improve your craft through reading poetry, ocean vuong is your guy. my favorite poem of his is def "Wood Working at the End of the World" vuong also has this instagram story series about metaphors and it changed the way i went about writing metaphors forever. def check him out
May 4, 2024
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been very much into ocean vuongβs writings lately
May 26, 2025
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maybe my answer is basic, but despite always having loved writing poetry i haven't actually read much of it until recently. we covered this poem in a course i was taking and it's just so good.
i just finished Ocean Vuong's "Night Sky With Exit Wounds" and it was so good as well, one of my favorites was "Thanksigivng 2006".
another poet i could recommend is Aimee Seu, i'm hoping to buy her book "Velvet Hounds" soon, a poem i love by her is called "Thrift Store Fur".
lastly, another poet i really love is chen chen. i really recommend reading "Summer"!
Jun 3, 2024
an award-winning poet discusses sufjan stevens and how music can prove our existence
https://lithub.com/the-songs-prove-that-we-were-here-ocean-vuong-on-
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