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some of my fav poets of the moment

• Maggie Nelson (Bluets and Something Bright, Then Holes) • Victoria Chang (Obit) • Heather Christle (The Crying Book) • bell hooks • June Jordan • Mary Oliver • e. e. cummings • Melissa Broder • Chen Chen • Mary Oliver  • Jacqueline Suskin • Andrea Gibson Some of the above poets have twitters/insta you can follow to keep up with their work! I also suggest following some publishers and presses that publish poetry to hear about new poets and their collections! I really like: • Copper Canyon Press • Graywolf Press • Coffee House Press • Wave Books • Button Poetry Happy reading, from one poet to another 💗

@chickeninshoes

May 7, 2024

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some tips and reccs <3 enjoy!

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

@siddhartha

Apr 1, 2024

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explore!

and don’t feel pressured to enjoy everything contemporary or all the classics or what’s popular or what we’re taught in school. there’s truly no right or wrong way to enjoy poetry—but not everything appeals to/resonates with everyone so if ur feeling like ur bored or not “getting it” that might be an invitation to try a different style! like i didn’t really like ocean vuong’s time is a mother, but i love richard siken’s crush. i love mary oliver, lucille clifton, and frank o’hara; but i don’t like ts eliot, emily dickinson, and allen ginsberg. there are no rules and there are plenty of kinds of poetry to explore! you maybe just haven’t found what you like yet. i also suggest finding accounts on other social media that post poetry and/or sign up for poetry fdn’s “poem of the day” emails. and when you find a poem you enjoy, check out that poet’s collection(s) at the library and read through them! :)

@marxinista

Jul 4, 2024

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being a nerd about stuff

being traditionally cool is really quite boring and iterative, and it’s actually very cool and sexy to geek out about something you like or share bits of knowledge on a topic you’re passionate about

@marxinista

Aug 17, 2024

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not being on tiktok

i had it for a little over a year until i was like wow this is actually terrible! i genuinely think it has negatively impacted society by ruining people’s attention spans, having a horrific algorithm, and most of all by the most mind-numbing or outright harmful trends - fake words that people now use IRL (“unalive”), trad wife tiktok, shein hauls, body-focused fitness vids that encourage fatphobia and unhealthy habits, shallow political/feminist theory and queer discourse, “alpha male” podcaster tiktok, encouraging overconsumption in general, trends ruining local spots or niche things… the list goes on

@marxinista

Aug 17, 2024

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electronics in fun colors

a million times cooler than the lackluster “sleek” tech color palette used today

@marxinista

Feb 22, 2025