“It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were geniuses for turning woman into..."

“As if there weren’t two possible results. A, I am tired and now I’m aware that I look like ***..."

“Kissing you is like a bundle of kittens colliding with my face at 0.5 miles per hour.”

“Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.” Clementine von Radics

“I start doing homework at Starbucks. I have more meaningful conversations with the barista than..."

“When we moved in together, she said that she felt safe, like no one would ever rob us because I..."

“She speaks of my grandmother, who was brought up in a time where child marriages were as regular.."

“Welcome the anxiety as a friend. Bring it with you to every social function and hold it close..."

“This is how we have learned to love. Texting each other pictures of our bodies. When we share a..."

“My body is an apartment that I can barely afford.” Dan Roman

"A girl with box springs in her throat felt the silence was too heavy for her fingertips to hold..."

"I'm a stupid, puppet version of me. I've got strings that lead to nowhere." Neil Hilborn

"With one girl, I spent so many years in the friend zone, I didn't even realize I was in it."

“‘Goodbye’ is the saddest word I know.” Sabrina Benaim

“You, woman, house a body that stay breaking, creaking men think the fragments aren’t opening..."

“When she broke your heart, did she also crack your spine so you would always fall in her..."

“Sometimes, the world will actually try to kill you. You’ll never deserve it.” Melissa Newman

“A girlfriend is an outfit that my maturity has passed down to my little cousins, years ago.”

“You are still alive. Act like it.” Rudy Francisco

“The women in my family are ***es. Cranky ***es, stuck-up ***es, customer-service-turned-sour..."

“The best part of having superpowers is that most of the time other people do not even know that

“I will not be cut into pieces anymore.” Brenna Twohy

“This is the part of the story when everyone is telling you to run.” Brenna Twohy

"I swore the next time he came into my bedroom uninvited, he would come out bleeding" Brenna Twohy

“I say, ‘I am sick.’ They say, ‘No, you are an inspiration.’” Blythe Baird

“It is the dilemma of the woman who wishes to inform the sexist, politely.” Blythe Baird

“Male kindness is so alien to us we assume it is seduction every time.” Blythe Baird

I have never felt so at ease as I did the day you called me (blue) Bianca Phipps

“I say this to you in a body thick enough to bury a rib cage with no sharp corners to trigger..."

“Look at your brother’s body. Rope doesn’t make his neck any different than mine. My accountant

“This is all for you and your well-being. You are sick, anxious, depressed, a danger to yourself.”

"What kind of Asian do you expect me to be? Because any way you slice egg roll, I'm still pretty..."

" 'Stop being a girl' was a terrible mantra that I just got used to like 'I will never amount to..."

“Tell depression, ‘Good game, I almost had you, mother***er.’” Akeemjamal Rollins

“A good time is the most honest thing in the universe, so why do I feel like the only liar here?"

“This house is for wallpaper women. What good is wallpaper that speaks?” - Blythe Baird

"I became a bully, because we all want to feel like America sometimes." - G Yamazawa

“If you offer me a shot, there’d better be a trigger involved.” #addictionrecovery #poetry

"My body has demanded everything except respect.”

“His breath, waiting to be folded into a love passed in between the nape of your neck and...”

Sabrina Benaim | a plain truth | from her book Depression & Other Magic Tricks

“Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.” - Blythe Baird reading Relapse

“You didn’t leave, I stopped waiting for you to.” Bianca Phipps reading Stay With Me

Pages Matam reading Piñata

Watch Me Paint Your Boring Wall Into Something Amazing! - Olivia Gatwood

Sabrina Benaim - The Loneliest Sweet Potato

@rudyfranciscothepoet - Love can be a reckless child #shorts #poetry

Crystal Valentine - And the News Reporter Says Jesus Is White