#poetry compilation

[martyrborne]

Devotion: profound dedication, loyalty, or love for a person, activity, or cause.

To love like a dog. To give everything and receive nothing but table scraps. To always want more.

[firstfullmoon]

hi!! if you could only read 10 poems again, which would those poems be? I just went through all of my collected poetry and created a top 10 list of poems that mean the most to me, and i thought it was a really fun and challenging exercise! i'm curious if we have any poems in common <3

OUGH. okay hardest question ever. keeping in mind those would be the only 10 poems I could ever read, I picked ones that are seminal to me & my relationship with poetry

“The Same City” by Terrance Hayes

“Magdalene—The Seven Devils” by Marie Howe

“October” by Louise Glück

“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara

“Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.” by June Jordan

“[I aborted two daughters]” by Diane Seuss

“Snow and Dirty Rain” by Richard Siken

“Late Poem to My Father” by Sharon Olds

“The Colonel” by Carolyn Forché

“Turtle, Swan” by Mark Doty

[storyweavingspider]

Today I published Chasing Uncertainty, my second Cento poetry compilation. Centos are similar to blackout poetry, and this arrangement is created from All The Black Girls are Activists by ebonyjanice.

These poems are based in Transfeminist Womanism—a synthesis of Transfeminism and Womanism—and were created with Black transfemmes in mind. All are welcome to read and resonate with these pieces, but Black transfemmes remain the primary audience.

Feel free to share your thoughts with me once you read it or as you read it, and I’d deeply appreciate it if you shared/reblogged this when you see it, to help expand its reach 💖

Cover art by Kabang Lauron

[onbrulera]

On fathers and sons

Tell Me Something Good, Ocean Vuong/Greywaren, Maggie Stiefvater/The Sun Is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon/Richard Siken/Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk/Saturn, Francisco de Goya/Saturn devouring a Son, Peter Paul Rubens/Someday I’ll Love, Ocean Vuong/Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581, Ilya Repin

[asoftepiloguemylove]

DO I EXIST?

Jody Chan aubade for the BPD subreddit user who wrote can people with BPD love? // 鉄男 Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto // The Mountain Goats Birth of Serpents // Dorothea Lasky Love Poems for Bathsheba // Zen Cho The Four Generations of Chang E // atlas a conversation about identity // Silent Hill 3 (2003) cr. Konami // Richard Siken You Are Jeff // unknown // Roe Gardner Requiem // Teki Yatsuda Sleeping on Paper Boats // Jane Mead World of Made and Unmade

[myfakeplasticlove13]

I guess some things you can never leave behind, they don’t belong to the past. They belong to you :,)

[maddieisnotreal]

quote from alice notley // open water by caleb azumah nelson // georgia o'Keeffe's letter to russel vernon hunter //sara teasdale's poem, the crystal gazer // all too well - taylor swift // sylvia plath // a little life by hanya yanagihara //memory for forgetfulness by mahmoud darwish, translated by Ibrahim Muhawi

[strawberrypirahna]

louise glück, the white series // claude monet, houses in the snow // fyodor dostoyevsky, the gentle spirit // jane o. wayne, with solitude //reddit user artsykate, winter nocturne with lonely road // joseph brodsky, to m.b. // fyodor dostoevsky, poor folk // caspar david friedrich, winter landscape // audre lorde, the cancer journals // mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness