Julia de la Torre3 min8 Poetry Books You MUST ReadSomeone once told me; you can’t analyze poetry, let the words wash over you and make you feel. That's it. There was a time when poetry se...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Therapy by Nayyirah Waheedthe hard season will split you through. do not worry. you will bleed water. do not worry. this is grief. your face will fall out and down...
Julia de la Torre2 minPoets Corner: SEPTEMBER 1, 1939SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Street TaxStreet Tax today a man on the street pointed to me & said "what the hell is that!?" i wanted to turn around, tell him that i got this dre...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall by Kim AddonizioTo the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever closed your legs to a man you loved open...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Between Going and Staying, by Octavio PazBetween Going and Staying (Translated by Eliot Weinberger) Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. ...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: All My News, by Leonard CohenAll My News (by Leonard Cohen, in “Book of Longing”) 1. I was not meant to be renown in the present market town, but in the future s...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Beasts Bounding Through Time by Charles BukowskiBeasts Bounding Through Time Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of me...
Julia de la Torre3 minWoman Crush Wednesday: Audre LordeBorn: February 18th 1934 - November 17th 1992 Originally from: Harlem, NY As a woman of color, lesbian, feminist, civil rights advocate...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Welcome To The Jungle by Morgan ParkerWelcome To The Jungle by Morgan Parker With champagne I try expired white ones I mean pills I mean men I think I’m going crazy sometim...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: The Book Of Longing by Leonard CohenThe Book of Longing I can't make the hills The system is shot I'm living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From ch...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Remedy by Eoin HanlonWords by Eoin Hanlon Photo by Cassidy Rose Reagan #PoetsCorner
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Still I Rise by Maya AngelouYou may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does m...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: The Genius Of The Crowd by Charles Bukowskithere is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: By The Time We Are Seven by Nayyirah Waheedi will crawl for white beauty. eat my arms. barter my legs (make my thighs into altars of grief). for skin that does not drink night. hai...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: From by Nayyirah Waheedwhat massacre happens to my son between him living within my skin. drinking my cells. my water. my organs. and his soft psyche turning cr...
Julia de la Torre1 minWords By Women: Poem By Eileen MylesMaxfield Parrish By Eileen Myles I always put my pussy in the middle of trees like a waterfall like a doorway to God like a flock of ...
Julia de la Torre1 minWords By Women: Jana Sawicki“The woman who checks her make up half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that th...
Julia de la Torre2 minPoets Corner: I Have Loved You Before by Jessï SchultzI have loved you before, In the windswept village of our forgotten sea. There is the sound of reef fish whispering, of eels slithering...
Julia de la Torre1 minPoets Corner: Five Part Poem by Adra KandilFive Part Poem by Adra Kandil Pt. i Collecting raindrops from the sky I count your words as they pass me by They string me along And weak...