We lived at the end of an empire. Jim Moore From Invisible Strings, 2011.

my glorious welcoming

The tender things

From Linda Pastan's poem The Months

let us be like the flowers

After a summer

You Reading This, Be Ready

M.O. From Felicity, 2015. #maryoliver #august #poetry #poertyisnotaluxury

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Jim Moore From Lighting At Dinner, 2005.

yet how deeply

Full moon 🌑

Rest in Peace Fanny Howe Fanny Howe's words mean everything. What a life of poetry she shared with us. A true legend.

this fragile life To Hold by Li-Young Lee From Behind My Eyes, 2008.

Be still sometimes.

WELLNESS CHECK #poertyisnotaluxury

May I hold you while you fall apart?

Audre Lorde From Poetry Is Not A Luxury: Poems For All Seasons Atria, 2025

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Then, trust.

the day-blind stars

#bellhooks on love

Come. And Be My Baby by Maya Angelou

Frank O'Hara (Mar 27th 1926 - July 25, 1966)

This is how spring is love

GOOD GRIEF by Andrea Gibson From You Better Be Lightning Button Poetry, 2021.

Ada Limón

You took the mud almost to your mouth. -Natalie Dunn

Robert Creeley

What We Want #lindapastan #poetryisnotaluxury

From Revolutionary Letter # 8 1971.

Lucille Clifton

Sheila Carter-Jones

1968 #richardbrautigan

#audrelorde (Feb 18, 1934- Nov 17,1992)

#malenamörling #poetryisnotaluxury From Astorian, 2006.

Terrance Hayes From Lighthead Penguin Poets, 2010.

like rain, for the sound it makes

I wish one could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

Danusha Laméris From Bonfire Opera, 2020.

Clint Smith from Above Ground, 2023.

#nikkigiovanni #poetryisnotaluxury

Rio Cortez🪻

Lucille Clifton's Night Vision

Danez Smith

Langston Hughes (Feb 1, 1901 - May 22, 1967)

Good Bones by Maggie Smith

in those days