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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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The Perfect Queer Poem: For Facing Our Enemies
We stay open, even when our minds are swayed by bitterness and despair, because our queer lives depend on knowing that we don’t have to live like this. We turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.
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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: 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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National Poetry Month: Lauren Zuniga Will Lull You Awake
“I just started working on a piece that’s a mash up of Neil Degrasse Tyson and Nicki Minaj.”
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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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Poetry is Dead’s Queer Issue Speaks Directly To Your Heart
Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.
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Agustina Woodgate Brings Poetry to a Thrift Store Near You
Carmen’s Team Pick: There’s just something about a girl who makes art.
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Pure Poetry #35: Lesbian Poet Kay Ryan Wins the Pulitzer Prize
She found out from her friend, ‘Kay Ryan you won a Pulitzer,’ on the phone. She won for her volume “The Best of It.”
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Pure Poetry #28 : Dorothy Porter
You really need to know about Dorothy Porter. She was an Australian poet, an out lesbian, and basically awesome.
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Pure Poetry #32: Gertrude Stein & Mina Loy
Did you know that Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy were friends? Do you even know who Mina Loy is? I didn’t until about ~5 days ago.
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Pure Poetry #33: Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Marisa Meltzer
“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”
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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 #27: Jeffrey McDaniel
“You must nurture the kiss. Turn out the lights. Notice how it illuminates the room. Hold it to your chest and wonder if the sand inside hourglasses comes from a special beach.”
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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 #18: Raymond Carver Could Drink Ten Quarts of this Beer
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
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Pure Poetry #9: Shel Silverstein
(from Intern Lily & w/a 12-year-old boy who lives with Laneia) – “Silverstein writes what children see. He reminds us all of what it is like to view the world in its purest form. A world without stereotypes, biases, and social norms.”
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Riese’s Team Pick: Emily Gould on Pure Poetry at Poetry Magazine
“You have to seek poetry out and, at least at first, you have force yourself to swallow it. Like a scratchy vitamin.”
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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.’