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variety of styles and poets but mostly contemporary; if you need them def look up TWs for these as some cover really heavy topics devotions - mary oliver (i would go to church if this was the bible) crush - richard siken bone - yrsa daley-ward queering the green: post-2000 queer irish poetry - ed. by paul madden (disclaimer, i haven’t read this yet but i just got it and it seems really good!) dear god. dear bones. dear yellow. - noor hindi life of the party - olivia gatwood ballast - quenton baker time is a mother - ocean vuong (not my style but still very good and is well-reviewed more generally) the hurting kind - ada limón two-headed woman - lucille clifton
Oct 25, 2024

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thank you so much!!!!
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tiff yw! :)
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Ohhh yeah
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Some of the above poets have twitters/insta you can follow to keep up with their work!
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1. accept that you can take whatever you want from a poem - I personally care less about understanding exactly what the poet intended, and focus more on: being reminded of moments/people/thoughts in my life, taking advice, and hearing words and phrases that sound nice together 2. start with easy/lovely/understandable poems! esp contemporary ones. have linked a couple below 3. read analysis/reviews of poems you don't understand! 4. read an entire poetry book! sometimes it's useful to see the poems in the context of each other. this is often how they're meant to be read. also sometimes have a authors note or intro which can help
here are some good ones to start with: - clam by Mary Oliver (abt nature + withstanding life): https://wordsfortheyear.com/2016/09/06/clam-by-mary-oliver/ - after a greek proverb by A E Stallings https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55235/after-a-greek-proverb - what I didn't know before by Ada Limón - https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-30712_WHAT-I-DIDN-T-KNOW-BEFORE - Invictus by William Ernest henley (this is an old one but easy to understand) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus
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