This Was A Great Read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” By Devon Price

hey there! do you have any poem recommendations? i tend to like poems about queerness and love, survival and hope, without terribly archaic language (but i can figure it out if the language is older/weirder) i like writing poetry and reading some, but school has beaten a lot of the joy out of it for me, and i'm trying to find a new appreciation for poetry. have a nice day!

May I recommend Want by Joan Larkin? It's one of my favorites :))

Richard Hugo, Essay on Poetic Theory: The Triggering Town

you think you are something less real than you are by Wendy Xu

i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times

#1,484

I picked up

one of those perfect published

poetry anthologies

flipping through its pages

fumbling for this authors sense of style

tripping headfirst into the phrase

“if writing would kill you, would you still write?”

my joints crack on impact

god there are weeks

when i can’t even dream

of pen and paper’s sordid affairs

but there are moments upon moments

where it’s the only impulse

I have left

i may never achieve

that coveted haven

on a barnes and nobles

new releases shelf

but god damn

i

will

write

until

i

die

or

i

cease

to

be

complete

Ilya Kaminsky, from "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses", Deaf Republic

The St. Louis Star and Times, Missouri, November 4, 1910

What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

writing, music, drawing, cooking, painting, sculpting. creating. art of every form is beautiful, don’t you think? is it not worth appreciating, the work, the passion the love, of something someone made, created. it is quite irreplaceable. and once you start appreciating its different ways, the world becomes a lot more vibrant, i think

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