“Know that we have met before and that we will meet again. I will find my way to you in the next life, and every life after that.”— Mia Hollow, instagram.com
“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“The bitch in the photograph wears my face. I cut off my nose, her nose collapses. Chop down my hair & hers shrieks from the sink. How many poems do I have to write ‘til she gets dead, how many live-wire syllables? I drive a fork into her heart & she comes back a quart of blood-hyped milk. Some girls…”— Rachel McKibbens, therumpus.net
“Sabine says, Honesty is the only antidote for shame. She is trying to save me. But I am tired.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“I am pleased mostly with the changes and the way I am finally becoming.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“I wanted to be something else. Myself, but better. Wild, and not-yet, A burn, maybe as it is occurring.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“I once fucked a man who was unspeakably ugly, and it wasn’t even winter. What I mean is that I bludgeoned the palm fronds to keep from sobbing. What I mean is that I lit a kite on fire and didn’t say I was sorry.”— Erika L. Sánchez, bostonreview.net
“Is that what makes art/ so desirable? What makes the under-wine flesh tasteful?”— Luther Hughes, theadroitjournal.org
“Sometimes the problem is that invisible girls are too visible, too powerful, too fierce. The world likes to box them in to contain them.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“'no' might make them angry, but it will make you free. - if no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“My anxiety is a child who plays tag with my intestines, braids fishtails with my pulse. While she naps unseen under caramel moons, I wake to find her blameless.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Males have not been illustrated in the media, and in the world for that matter, the same way women have. This is why Julia Roberts will get asked about her beauty routine during important interviews, but George Clooney will not. This is why Brie Larson gets asked about the dress she is wearing on a…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Is this all women are meant to be? Listless, and beautiful? Eager to be loved, constantly in need of male affection?”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“The eerie similarity between all of these male poetry accounts, is the fact that they use the female experience to promote themselves. And though their writing seems to reach millions of people, day by day, when are we going to admit that these are not authentic pieces of work being gifted to the wo…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“I shatter what light has done to me: in my wildest dreams where the given body is a form of flight & in this latest version I step into the wreckage, to find the other side of me blooming.”— Michael Wasson, kenyonreview.org
“I count all the oceans, blood & not-blood, all the people I could be, the whole map, my mirror.”— Fatimah Asghar, poetryfoundation.org
“I miss the nights when my parents And dreamcatchers were enough to keep me safe Instead of speed walks and keychains loaded down With pepper spray.”— Holly Riordan, amazon.com
“No one noticed When the sparrows left It was just another smoggy winter morning People drove their cars dropped their children off At air conditioned schools Where they learned Pollution is a bad thing It was just another smoggy winter morning And stuck on flyovers No one noticed That they spent mor…”— Unknown, twitter.com
“this lonely attracts men to my ankles, the way the drip of a mango causes fire ants to find their teeth.”— Hilda Davis, theoffingmag.com
“When I took the trash out at night, I sometimes felt his eyes, tried to pretend he wasn’t the thing he claimed to be protecting me from.”— Raven Leilani , narrativemagazine.com