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Our three poems

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

What Do Women Want by Kim Addonizio

Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay

Poetry websites

• poetryfoundation.org
• poetrysociety.org.uk
• poets.org
• poetryarchive.org
• reddit.com/r/Poetry/
• The Poetry Pharmacy (shop in London + online)

Poets to explore

• Mary Oliver (American, nature/spirituality)
• Sharon Olds (American, body/sexuality/family)
• Marie Howe (American, grief/love/the sacred ordinary)
• Erica Jong (American, desire/liberation/womanhood)
• Andrea Gibson (American, queer/activism/vulnerability)
• Maya Angelou (American, resilience/race/womanhood)
• Kim Addonizio (American, desire/grit/the messy female experience)
• Lucille Clifton (American, Black womanhood/survival)
• Ada Limón (American/Mexican, nature/grief/belonging)
• Nayyirah Waheed (American, short-form/identity/healing)
• Donna Ashworth (Scottish, accessible/womanhood/midlife)
• Warsan Shire (British-Somali, diaspora/ belonging/ womanhood)
• Nikita Gill (British-Indian, mythology/feminism/healing)
• Rupi Kaur (Canadian-Indian, trauma/healing/love)

Well that was amazing! What a fantastic start to the series - I wrote so much!! 

We also had some wonderful recommendations in the chat which I've linked below.

Click the button underneath the links to download all the poems in one PDF

Enjoy!

Heron symbology

Poetry Foundation: Poem of the day

The Kim Addonizio poem I mentioned: For Desire

More poets to explore: 

Ellen Bass (The Thing Is) / William Stafford (The Way It Is) / John O’Donohue / Andrea Gibson (Tincture)

Nia Broomhall, Danna Faulds