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Queer circus poet, activist, lover of/contributor to safe(r) spaces, trying to do things in the world even though the world scares me. joyeyoungpoetry.com

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Not sure what to get someone special on your holiday list? Want to get yourself something personal? I usually save these for Valentine's Day, but was asked specifically to make this available for the holidays. So I'll be doing sliding scale custom poems this holiday season! (Link in bio) #poems #slam #slampoetry #poetsoninstagram #christmasgifts #holidaygifts #queerpoet #selflove #uniquegifts #typewriterpoetry #customgifts https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq8OuVTlDGv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16n7jcvws51bp

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I am so excited to be hard at work on this project! Pre-Orders are open! Help us print our first issue of WE GROW ANYWAY and make this book a reality by buying your copy in advance! WE GROW ANYWAY is an anthology of poetry surrounding the joy, growth and healing -- narratives not often shared in the realm of queer and marginalized identities. This anthology shares the love as well as the heartbreak, the strength as well as the struggle, the joy as well as the pain. The link to pre-order a copy is in our bio! Thank you for your support and for helping us grow. 🌵💖 #queer #anthology #zine #queerzines #lgbtq #poetry #instapoetry #queerlit #queerpoetry #wegrowanyway #wga #zinestagram

[joyyoungpoetry]

I am so excited to be hard at work on this project! Pre-Orders are open! Help us print our first issue of WE GROW ANYWAY and make this book a reality by buying your copy in advance! WE GROW ANYWAY is an anthology of poetry surrounding the joy, growth and healing -- narratives not often shared in the realm of queer and marginalized identities. This anthology shares the love as well as the heartbreak, the strength as well as the struggle, the joy as well as the pain. The link to pre-order a copy is in our bio! Thank you for your support and for helping us grow. 🌵💖 #queer #anthology #zine #queerzines #lgbtq #poetry #instapoetry #queerlit #queerpoetry #wegrowanyway #wga #zinestagram

[joyyoungpoetry]

I am so excited to be hard at work on this project! Pre-Orders are open! Help us print our first issue of WE GROW ANYWAY and make this book a reality by buying your copy in advance! WE GROW ANYWAY is an anthology of poetry surrounding the joy, growth and healing -- narratives not often shared in the realm of queer and marginalized identities. This anthology shares the love as well as the heartbreak, the strength as well as the struggle, the joy as well as the pain. The link to pre-order a copy is in our bio! Thank you for your support and for helping us grow. 🌵💖 #queer #anthology #zine #queerzines #lgbtq #poetry #instapoetry #queerlit #queerpoetry #wegrowanyway #wga #zinestagram

[joyyoungpoetry]

I am so excited to be hard at work on this project! Pre-Orders are open! Help us print our first issue of WE GROW ANYWAY and make this book a reality by buying your copy in advance! WE GROW ANYWAY is an anthology of poetry surrounding the joy, growth and healing -- narratives not often shared in the realm of queer and marginalized identities. This anthology shares the love as well as the heartbreak, the strength as well as the struggle, the joy as well as the pain. The link to pre-order a copy is in our bio! Thank you for your support and for helping us grow. 🌵💖 #queer #anthology #zine #queerzines #lgbtq #poetry #instapoetry #queerlit #queerpoetry #wegrowanyway #wga #zinestagram

[joyyoungpoetry]

I am so excited to be hard at work on this project! Pre-Orders are open! Help us print our first issue of WE GROW ANYWAY and make this book a reality by buying your copy in advance! WE GROW ANYWAY is an anthology of poetry surrounding the joy, growth and healing -- narratives not often shared in the realm of queer and marginalized identities. This anthology shares the love as well as the heartbreak, the strength as well as the struggle, the joy as well as the pain. The link to pre-order a copy is in our bio! Thank you for your support and for helping us grow. 🌵💖 #queer #anthology #zine #queerzines #lgbtq #poetry #instapoetry #queerlit #queerpoetry #wegrowanyway #wga #zinestagram

[joyyoungpoetry]

I am so excited to be hard at work on this project! Pre-Orders are open! Help us print our first issue of WE GROW ANYWAY and make this book a reality by buying your copy in advance! WE GROW ANYWAY is an anthology of poetry surrounding the joy, growth and healing -- narratives not often shared in the realm of queer and marginalized identities. This anthology shares the love as well as the heartbreak, the strength as well as the struggle, the joy as well as the pain. The link to pre-order a copy is in our bio! Thank you for your support and for helping us grow. 🌵💖 #queer #anthology #zine #queerzines #lgbtq #poetry #instapoetry #queerlit #queerpoetry #wegrowanyway #wga #zinestagram

[joyyoungpoetry]

“People ask me about the woman from the poem. I never tell them about Papago Park. How I pass it on my way to work. How I stopped working on exercising it from my mind. I never tell them about the jogger. About the sunrise illuminating body. About the hiked up skirt or the way the dusty Phoenix gravel digs into skin. I never mention the underwear in my back pocket. How I almost forgot it was there. How I caught myself walking away with pieces of you.”

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Papago Park

Joy Young – This poem is for those of you who like The Dress Poem. It’s a response to questions of what I had left out of that poem. 

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You Always Make Me Think of Sunflowers

Thick stem holding up impossibly ridiculous bloom

like it isn’t a burden,

like it is a joy

to be this heavy

bursting with seeds,

palms outstretched and open

face ever tilted toward the sun.

-Joy Young

Custom Valentine’s Day poems available on my website for a limited time: joyyoungpoetry.com

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I'm not doing custom Valentine's poems right now but this came up in my dashboard and this poem makes me happy. Happy pride month y'all.

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Sleepy babes 😴

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Our new place is looking more and more like home.

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“How can she say Jesus was a white man when he died the blackest way possible; with his hands up, with his mother watching.”

— Crystal Valentine - “And the News Reporter Says Jesus Is White”

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“You want a poem to unsettle something. There’s a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say: ‘This is what you think you’re certain of, and I’m going to show you how that’s not enough. There’s something more that might be even more rewarding if you’re willing to let go of what you already know.’”

— Tracy K. Smith, interviewed by Ruth Franklin for the New York Times Magazine

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“Our time together taught me that my body is not a hotel. Not a townhouse. Not a place to lease. My worth is not determined by those who want to live inside me.”

— Tonight’s Cantab feature is 2018 WoWPS finalist and Marquis Slam champ Mia S. Willis! This is from her poem “Ten Things You Taught Me,” as published in The Fem.