Desireé Dallagiacomo

desireedallagiacomo.com

[poemsbydes]

What’s your full length book going to be about?

bit.ly/desireesink <3 <3 <3

[poemsbydes]

origin story made me cry, and i wanted to thank you for that little bit of catharsis

Thank you. Thank poem means a lot to me, and I think sometimes that it doesn’t resonate with others. Thanks for letting it resonate <3

[poemsbydes]

Thank you. I’m feeling broken wide open, and I’m reading your words and feeling a little less alone.

honored <3

[poemsbydes]

I just want to say that you will never know how much "I Forgive You" means to me. Truly, truly, truly, it is one of the most important works I've ever had.

thank you thank you thank you, dear heart <3

[poemsbydes]

Any way you could pen something for a specific person?

I can! I take commissions! You can contact me via my website, desireedallagiacomo.com

[lifeinpoetry]

I would clench your memory in my mouth, a meal 

I’d tear to pieces. My heart was an estuary you could never survive inside.

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from “The Funny Wind of the Heart Is Not a Reliable Weathervane,” Sink

[lifeinpoetry]

I am full. I am boiling over. I am fragile. / I am terrified to say that. To say I break like a fever.

Desireé Dallagiacomo, from “I Break Like a Fever,” Sink (via lifeinpoetry)

[buttonpoetry]

My first altar was my mother’s body, a secret hideout in a woman’s skin.

Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink (via buttonpoetry)

[buttonpoetry]

This is how I learned to love. Fleeting; in a panic; a frenzy; watching as the wicked unfolds.

Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink  (via buttonpoetry)

[poemsbydes]

Are you ever gonna sell the broadside of "thighs say" again? It was the first poem of yours my girlfriend ever showed me and I'd love to buy it for her

As of now, there are no plans to do that. But the poem will be in my book, SINK, coming out in March 2019 with Button Poetry!

[poemsbydes]

Hi. Tomorrow is my first reading in which I’ll be performing all new poems from the book, forthcoming Spring 2018. I’m super nervous and not quite sure how these poems will be received, but I’m honored to be able to share them. If y’all are in the Twin Cities, bundle up and come hear poem from me, @graceakon, and other wonderful poets. (at Icehouse MPLS) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqAuuVlHphn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12rr7os7ias8j

[poemsbydes]

I used to love listening to your poem on youtube "White Girl Can't Love That Way" and now I can't find it. Is there a reason it was taken off of youtube? ps You're one of my biggest inspirations

Hi there. I took it off of YouTube because it is a deeply problematic and appropriative poem, and it was my first attempt at writing about my class and I completely butchered that. I get a lot of messages like this, and though I appreciate them, I want to reiterate that that poem is deeply problematic and I wrote it from a position of immense privilege. If you want to talk more about that poem, and maybe any thoughts you have, feel free to email me.

[poemsbydes]

You are a very important person to me. When you and your work came into my life, it saved me. How could I live up to it? How could I confront the demons, slay the dragons, admit to being the dragon? The stronger I got the more you pulled away. Of course that’s what happens. After that, it was inevitable I would stumble and fall. You made it so easy to hate myself, so I ran. I considered it a final thank you for all you had done. I’ve tried not to be a Haunting. I’m sorry you ever had to know me.

Hi I have no idea who you are and I understand that Tumblr allows you to say things anonymously and if you needed to say this for you, then I’m glad you did.

[poemsbydes]

Is your poem “instructions on how to be the other woman” published anywhere? It’s truly one of my faves

The text is not published anywhere, but there are plenty of videos of it on YouTube!

[poemsbydes]

Hi! Will you be traveling/ speaking anywhere on the mid- east coast anytime soon? I would love to meet you or hear you perform!

I’ll be at Harvard in October, and I’m open to doing some other readings/workshops in the area! Feel free to send me an email if your school/org wants to set something up!

[poemsbydes]

Here to remind you that your misogyny hurts boys, too

[poemsbydes]

Could you help me remember a poem of yours? All I know is there’s a line in it about boys and firecrackers and your mouth, but I can’t for the life of me remember which poem it is

The poem is called One Side of an Ongoing Dialogue with Sharon, My Therapist and it’s on YouTube and may or may not be in my forthcoming book!