Poetry Rx: Sex with a Famous Poet
Dear Poets, I’ve fallen in love with the well-known poet who leads my writing workshop. What do I do?
Sarah Kay
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Poetry Rx: Forgive Me, Open Wounds
Dear Poets, help me admit my need to change while also holding onto the ability to forgive myself. To forgive, in general.
Poetry Rx: Mother’s Day Edition
Dear Poets, My mother passed away from cancer eight years ago. I forget what it feels like to have a mother. I forget what a mother’s love feels like. Is there any poem for what i feel right now?
Poetry Rx: Ordinary Sex
Dear Poets, I'm feeling a bit unmoored by all the things that are changing in my life. I'm looking for a poem to bolster me.
Poetry Rx: There Are Enough Ballrooms in You
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match.
Poetry Rx: Still, Somehow, We Breathe
Dear Poets, Please send me poetry that makes me feel excitement about the world around me, or poetry that, in economic ways (I really hate self-indulgent, long-winded poems) expresses deep, deep feeling.
Poetry Rx: You Are a Threat Loving Yourself
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match.
Poetry Rx: This Is the Year
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line.Dearest Poets, The women w…
Poetry Rx: You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life
Dear Poets, I crave a hand in mine, a jaw to nuzzle, an ear to whisper into, a voice reading to me. Is there a poem that expresses this craving without viewing romantic love as a life-altering, world-saving thing?
Poetry Rx: You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Dear Poets, How can I justify that poetry is an endeavor and pursuit in its own right? Yours, Nervous Wreck
Poetry Rx: Pain Will Become Interesting
Poems for when you become numb to tragedy, when you can't forgive yourself, and when you're filled with existential dread
Poetry Rx: This Gloom is Someone Else’s
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line.Dear Poets, My birthday is…
Poetry Rx: Listen I Love You Joy Is Coming
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. Dear Poets, I’…
Poetry Rx: There Will Never Be More of Summer Than There Is Now
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. Dear Poets, I am…
Poetry Rx: I Wish You a Tongue Scalded by Tea
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. Dear Poets, I ha…
Poetry Rx: Pleasure as a Means
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. Dear Poets, My c…
Poetry Rx: The Most Beautiful Part of Your Body Is Where It’s Headed
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. Dear Poets, I'm …
Poetry Rx: Rootless and Rejected
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. Dear Poets, I w…
Poetry Rx: Snowy Forests and Urgent Hearts
In our new column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion (like “when you love someone so much you want to rip them apart and live inside them”) and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescr…