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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)