#poetryposting

[wizardempires]

an exit wound that feels so fucking good, @/megann_lynne on twitter

[saltedcaramelchaos]

So we’re reading a lot of poetry in my literature class right now (which is amazing and incredible and very cool)

and with some of them I’m like “wow this is a good poem im gonna remember this one” and sometimes I’m like Oh this is Blorbo Themed. y’know?

[jonnyinthewell]

poem and collage mini-zine I’m very proud of

Canary head and vixen legs

Ovaries and hard shelled eggs

Woman heart and human brain

All the hunters know my name

Really, still, they know me not

Darling, I have yet to rot!

[lucagrackle]

"Delay, Deny, Depose" - A poem about *gestures wildly*

[vamp1regirl]

[creaturesituations]

trying to figure out why i always want to complain that no one likes my writing.

i don't even feel bad about getting rejections per se. i think it's that i struggle to understand what journals/magazines mean when they talk about what they're looking for? except for things like 'no rhyme' or 'sonnets' i don't find often that what they say about what they publish, their vibe, what they're into, is illuminated for me by checking out their issues.

i think, that's a bunch of poems alright! i think, am i stupid? do i understand language at all if i can't even parse these submission guidelines because they use abstraction? why am i, a thing that can't understand language, assuming i can have something to say, lightly or seriously? i know it's not that serious! but

and it hurts my feelings the way that sex and violence sometimes come up in submission guidelines even when i'm pretty sure that a piece i'm submitting doesn't contain those things. it makes me sad, it puts me off, to see 'sexual assault' listed undifferentiated among bigotries, and confused when i recall poems about sexual violence from that same magazine.

what's a justifiable depiction or talking-about, and what is obviously unacceptable? what is pornographic? what is just for the sake of it? how do you know? how do they know?

i have a hard time evaluating my work for these themes. and my own posts for content warnings !! i'm choosing to do all this. i want to keep trying because i think i have some good poems. i also want to branch out with my work.

[howldean]

Poem for Poem? My favorite is Contender by Traci Brimhall <33

contender “it’s alright if you fall out of love with being alive, but try again tomorrow”

okay i’m going to give you one of my old favorites from when i was like 15 it’s To The Young Who Want To Die, by Gwendolyn Brooks

“through pout or pain or peskyness” are words that run through my head often

send me an ask and i’ll send you a poem!

[jouissanceangel]

goylemdik shlep

ikh zikh

arum, mayn

shtern farkhasmet

mit “hevl” —

tsung opgenumen

fun loshn-thomen

un pshat-kholels

vos brekhn

plutsem aroys

oyf der

same rege

fun redn.

golem-like i

drag myself

around, forehead

inscription: not-sense —

tongue frozen

by language-cavitites

and meaning-voids

that erupt

suddenly at

the moment

of speech

——

poem i wrote about the (im)possibility of fluency, construed historically, linguistically, culturally