Blythe Baird, “Pocket-Sized Feminism”
Finishing up our year-end countdown of the top poems of the year on Button Poetry’s channel, our final entry, the most-viewed poem of the year, is Blythe Baird’s “Pocket-Sized Feminism.” Congratulations Blythe!
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& another shoutout to button… I can’t believe my pocket-sized feminism poem was the MOST VIEWED POEM OF 2016.
happy tears over here.
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that a poem could save me at the end of the world,
my bug-out bag teeming with “Good Bones.” My friend’s
husband sells guns. He’s a republican. His sales boom
under a democratic president, and sometimes he feels
strange-weird about making money off his opposition.
But people are afraid, he says, that their guns will get taken
away, so they load up and up, and now that Trump is here
people are pushing poems around the Internet like a salve,
slathering feeds with verse as sustenance for the apocalypse.
I’m getting emails about my work, they read: it’s so important
right now. I think right now has always been for sale. I was
always born writing poems about my skin and country."
You are California, how a person can love
one part and hate another, how regional."
FEBRUARY HOROSCOPES, by Blythe Baird (2017)
Aries, some ghosts are here to teach you instead of haunt you.
Taurus, your mother is not disappointed in the person you’ve become or the people you have been.
Gemini, it is difficult for an artist to love another artist; you both desperately want the other to hold still.
Cancer, avoiding important conversations because they’re difficult does not make anything easier.
Leo, you are still adequate even when you are not receiving constant validation.
Virgo, the life you deserve is fulfilling and filled to the brim with glittering magnificence.
Libra, everyone misses you even when you don’t think you’ve gone anywhere.
Scorpio, healing doesn’t have to mean yanking the memory down like the string of a ceiling fan.
Sagittarius, the careful balance of chaos and beauty in your life is inspiring to those around you.
Capricorn, some things are just meant to be a conversation; not everything is meant to be a poem.
Aquarius, the person that once made a city out of your heart is still looking for your tongue in the mouths of strangers.
Pisces, good intentions are not good excuses."
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Sasha Banks, “uhmareka, collapse: two,” published in Poor Claudia (via bostonpoetryslam)
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a many-headed beast. The beast was not
the terror, she was my cousin; the terror
was the sudden knowing that all
empires are made of paper and
damned religions."
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, “& who, this time,” published in The Rumpus (via bostonpoetryslam)
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MARCH HOROSCOPES, by Blythe Baird (2017)
Pisces, plant seeds down your spine and become the careful gardener of your own life.
Aries, choosing to stay alive is a talent.
Taurus, the solution you found for yourself isn’t necessarily what will work for everyone else.
Gemini, you are too clever and influential to let minor setbacks block your path to success.
Cancer, it’s not fair to make someone play a game if you never explain the rules.
Leo, if you have to convince them to love you then it is in your best interest to leave.
Virgo, know how much your friends appreciate you even when you don’t always see them.
Libra, be easy on yourself and know you are doing the very best you possibly can.
Scorpio, recognize your keen ability to make people feel either insignificant or unstoppable.
Sagittarius, don’t let anyone dilute you to just an anecdote they brag about at parties.
Capricorn, forgive your father even if you still settle for lovers with his same stubborn temper.
Aquarius, you still have the same good heart that you did as a child."
Olivia Gatwood-“Ode to the Women on Log Island” (via pushed-from-grace)
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