For National Poetry Month, I’ll be sharing a writing prompt each day. The prompt will be inspired by the poem-a-day on poets.org. Today’s poem is here: https://poets.org/poem/when-night-draws-remembering-keeps-me-wakeful?mc_cid=cfb52de157&mc_eid=f9ff4f27c3… Read more “National Poetry Month – Day 1”
Author: suziqsmith
I am an award-winning poet, author, interdisciplinary artist, music maker, educator, and dreamer of dreams who lives in Denver, Colorado.
TO ALL THE HEARTS TOO BROKEN TO LOVE ME AND MY HOMIES:
may you be lifted from this poverty may you know water’s sweet crystalline dew may you feel a sun rise within you hot and bright enough to… Read more “TO ALL THE HEARTS TOO BROKEN TO LOVE ME AND MY HOMIES:”
There Will Probably Be Crying Workbook & Journal: Suggested Reading Companion
As you make your way through the workbook, these poems & texts might be useful companions and inspiration. This is a living doc with links – I… Read more “There Will Probably Be Crying Workbook & Journal: Suggested Reading Companion”
we are building [margins.] and would love for you to join us
Some of you may know that I have been working with The Word, and am specifically working on the [margins.] conference. The only of its kind in the U.S., the… Read more “we are building [margins.] and would love for you to join us”
we all want the same thing:
to love and be loved, fully, freely, long for safety for our selves for our loved ones even ones we struggle to love (especially if you are… Read more “we all want the same thing:”
There Will Probably Be Crying: A Reading
Join us for a livestream reading on Saturday, October 17. 5 PM Pacific / 6 PM Mountain / 7 PM Central / 8 PM Eastern.
The Laughing Barrel Must Have Been Cobalt Blue
Under the shadow of a headline looking too much like our children, we tucked and folded and gathered ourselves and each other into the skirt of my… Read more “The Laughing Barrel Must Have Been Cobalt Blue”
Poems for the End of the World: Peace Piece
once i played a song for a man i loved i visited his home years later he had the sheet music for the beloved song open at… Read more “Poems for the End of the World: Peace Piece”
Poems for the End of the World: Small Swallows
how many times have i forced my tongue down inside and not a joyous lapping a uvula flicking but heavy and still a bunker waiting for the… Read more “Poems for the End of the World: Small Swallows”
Poems for the End of the World: How to Find Water
How to Find Water follow the first tear fallen on cracked desert[1] find its river and know water again cover skin in the mud in celebration of… Read more “Poems for the End of the World: How to Find Water”
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