I love your writing! Do you have anything published? Or any poetry books you would recommend?
Thanks! I donāt have anything published (working on it!) but I can give you a whole list of poetry books I recommend:
Franny Choi - Floating, Brilliant, Gone
Clementine Von Radics - Mouthful of Forevers
Andrea Gibson - The Madness Vase
Anis Mojgani - The Feather Room
Sara Eliza Johnson - The Bone Map
Margaret Atwood - The Door
Anne Michaels - Skin Divers
Miles Walser - What the Night Demands
Caitlyn Seihl - What We Buried
Jeanann Verlee - Racing Hummingbirds
Mindy Nettifee - Rise of the Trust Fall
Gabriel Gadfly - Bone Fragments (war poems if youāre into that)
Gabriel Gadfly -Ā Ventricle, Atrium
Maggie Nelson - Bluets (sorta poetry?)
Cristin OāKeefe Aptowicz - Everything is Every Thing
Tara Hardy - Bringing Down the Chandelier
Megan Falley - After the Witch Hunt
Sarah Kay - No Matter the Wreckage
Iain S. Thomas (or pleasefindthis) - I Wrote This For You
Sierra DeMulder - The Bones Below
Lauren Zuniga - The Smell of Good Mud
On my poetry wishlist based on my love for their writing:
Shinji Moon - The Anatomy of Being
Neil Hilborn - Our Numbered Days
Sierra DeMulder - We Slept Here
Donna-Marie Riley - Love and Other Small Wars
Azra Tabassum - Shaking the Trees
Richard Siken - War of the Foxes
Heather Knox - Dowry Meat
Emily OāNeill - Pelican
Jeanann Verlee - Said the Manic to the Muse
Meggie Royer - The No You Never Listened To
Kharla M. Brillo - Other Than Sadness
Lora Mathis - The Women Widowed to Themselves
Fortesa Latifi - We Were Young
Ashe Vernon - Wrong Side of a Fistfight
Sam Sax - A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters
Danez Smith - Black Movie
Posting because I spent an hour compiling this list for future reference! If anyone has any recommendations based on this, Iād love to hear them :)