Sims Library of Poetry @sims_library
Black-owned poetry library & community space in Los Ángeles. linktr.ee/SimsLibraryofP… Los Angeles, CA Joined June 2021-
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"Love is like water, a need to survive to quench the thirst for progress and adaptation" - Bhavya Prabhakar simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
“Talent is nurtured in solitude.” Solitude’s solace permits the mind to effervesce with novelty; the plain meadow of solace fosters pollination of tulips of thought, supervening via germination of the mind’s soil. -- Solitude. by Adam Shonubi simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
How do you write such long poems? My mother asks me on the phone. "Just like you make chicken curry," I say. She laughs. -- Chicken Curry by Chandrama Deshmukh simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com
"Turns out there’s a difference between a halo and a crown, between one meant to love me and a nest of snake-dead eggs," [Poem-a-Week] Visionary by Dion O'Reilly , by @sims_library open.substack.com/pub/simslibrar…
✨Festival of Libraries spotlight✨ 📚Future (of) Poetry Libraries📚 Connect, introduce your own work, and think about the possibilities and challenges of the future at this online event on Thu 8 Jun. mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library… #FestivalofLibraries @MCRCityofLit
"I was somewhere in your body, / small cell origami hanging like a Little Tree air freshener / that could not hide the scent of that fresh asphalt my father / drove over with a toothpick in the corner of his mouth," -- Cruisin' by Sandra e De Anda simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
[Poem-a-Week] I Ask Myself by Cecilia R. Sanchez "I ask myself, when will I be enough? Enough to not only fall under one category in a box Enough to be deemed a living human roaming stolen land I ask myself" simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
sunday at echo park by Arumandhira Howard simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
"can you see through me to my skeleton can you hold my bare bones with your eyes will you bruise my trachea too" simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
oh hi, you answered. well lets get straight to it. do you have time to talk about masculinity? -- Andrew Zaragoza simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
[Poem-a-Week] 60 Towards Artesia Station by Jean-Pierre Rueda simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
[Poem-a-Week] My Mother Was a Pelican by Addisyn Clapp simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
Sims Library of Poetry: [Poem-a-Week] Synonyms for Grief by K.E. Ogden simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
Sims Library of Poetry: [Poem-a-Week] Blood & Fears by S.A. Adounvo simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
Sims Library of Poetry: [Poem-a-Week] if grief is a visitor by Anatalia Vallez simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
Sims’s Substack: [Poem-a-Week] [currency of words] by Edward L. Canavan simslibraryofpoetry.substack.com/p/poem-a-week-…
[Poem-a-Week] Fresh Off the Plane by Nikki Corina - mailchi.mp/dc5064b8c8e5/f…

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