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“Survival Takes a Wild Imagination” Shows How the Labor of Liberation Makes Us Better
Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational trauma.
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K. Allison Hammer Imagines the Queer and Trans Possibilities of Masculinity
Rather than focus on individual, exceptional figures of toxic masculinity, Hammer wanted to explore masculinity as a cultural form that people of all genders can embody.
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8 Poets With New Queer Books To Check Out This National Poetry Month
If I’ve given you one poetry recommendation, I’ve held back from giving 15.
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Whether you’re ready to heal or just want to hear someone else’s story, these poets are experts at examining grief, loss, and recovery.
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for a Big Life Change
I have never lived anywhere that wasn’t in Pennsylvania. This state is my home, but I’m ready to move on from it.
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In Verse: Poetry Collections That Conjure Spring
In these books, you won’t necessarily find flowers and natural scenes, but you will find a general feeling of rebirth, of growth, and of finding peace within the things that trouble us.
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for Pride Month
In a field that was once dominated by the cis straight white male voice, LGBTQ poets and poets of color are finally starting to get their due.
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for Broken Hearts
This new series, In Verse, is about bringing you the collections of poetry that meet you where you are at. This first installment is for the person dealing with a broken heart.
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9 Poems to Read in These Trying Times
One place that I have found comfort before and continue to find it now is in poetry, the words of others who have experienced and seen unspeakable things and come out on the other side. I hope you can find some comfort in them, too.
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100 of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack
In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.
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Read A F*cking Book Review: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is Living Her Truths in “Bodymap”
I told myself 2015 was the year of living my truths. I’m excited to have a guide in this book, and in Leah’s soulful mission to love and be loved — the rest of it be damned.
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National Poetry Month: YaliniDream Opens Spaces and Hearts
I ended up taking advantage of the fact that I was on the margins. I used the power of invisibility to crack open spaces at the edges. The power of performance is impermanence — nobody could catch it and say “here’s proof of what she is saying or doing.”
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National Poetry Month: Denice Frohman Slams Down Oppression With Survival Poetry
“Poetry calls us into ourselves. It’s asking you to be truthful and say whatever it is you need to say.”
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Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn
In which five of us talk about our favorite poet ever. “Those of us who think we know / the same secrets / are silent together most of the time.”
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Pure Poetry #22: William Carlos Williams and Beyond
This is just a post (mostly) about old white men. But it’s happy. It’s Autostraddle is Pure Poetry week and this is how we do it.
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Pure Poetry #8: Louise Glück
It was the last line of the poem that was the most striking. ‘The love of form is a love of endings.’
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Pure Poetry #25: Notes on Rainer “Rilke” Maria Rilke
Did you know that Rilke’s Mom initially raised him as a girl? True story.
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Pure Poetry #14: Sady Doyle on the Great Poet Diane Di Prima
“This woman found the riskiest, weirdest thing to be, at any particular moment, and then she became it.”