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In case you haven\u2019t heard, poetry\u2019s having a bit of a moment. Insta poets like the wildly successful Rupi Kaur<\/a> have brought the once stale form to the masses, cultural icons such as Beyonce are working with groundbreaking young voices \u2014\u00a0she collaborated with British-Somalian poet Warsan Shire<\/a> on her visual album, Lemonade<\/em>, and in the UK, poetry book sales are at an all time high<\/a>. Seemingly, at a time of intense political unrest \u2014 Brexit, Trump, horrific gun violence, rising far-right and changing social attitudes \u2014\u00a0the need for poetry is ever the more necessary. In recent years, a new wave of queer and feminist poets have revolutionised the literary genre, offering gut-wrenching poetry in the face of dire political circumstances. Dealing with themes of love, desire, race, illness, erasure, \u00a0shame, loss but most of all, hope, these poets offer invariably tender and electrifying invocations to challenge the tired and oppressive conventions that keep us from experiencing the world to its fullest potential. We have one piece of advice for you this World Poetry Day: do yourself a favour and get acquainted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ocean Vuong<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":75291,"id":75291,"title":"950x350-white-solid-color-background (7)","filename":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","filesize":445681,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/young-poets\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-7","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75269,"date":"2019-03-21 17:56:58","modified":"2019-03-21 17:56:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1125,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1125,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1125,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1125,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1125,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1125,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":16,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-7.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1125}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Born in Saigon, Vietnam before moving to Connecticut as a child, Ocean Vuong<\/a> is one of most exciting and important voices on the contemporary poetry circuit. Winner of the 2018 TS Eliot Prize and author of the acclaimed collection, <\/span>N<\/span><\/i>ight Sky With Exit Wounds (2016), <\/span><\/i>Vuong writes about queer desire, the body and personal transformation with near-spiritual grace and exquisite attention to detail. In his outstanding poem, \u201c<\/span>On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous\u201d \u2014\u00a0which is also the name of his highly anticipated first novel due to be published this June \u2014\u00a0Vuong composes a contemporary epic, flittering with desperation, chaos and earth-shattering love: \u201cOur heads haloed\/with gnats & summer too early\/to leave any marks.\/Your hand under my shirt as static\/intensifies on the radio.\/Your other hand pointing\/your daddy\u2019s revolver\/ to the sky. Stars falling one\/by one in the cross hairs\/ This means I won\u2019t be afraid if we\u2019re already here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Angel Nafis <\/strong><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":75288,"id":75288,"title":"950x350-white-solid-color-background (9)","filename":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","filesize":248457,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/young-poets\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-9","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75269,"date":"2019-03-21 17:40:20","modified":"2019-03-21 17:40:20","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1090,"height":565,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":66,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","medium-width":1090,"medium-height":565,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","medium_large-width":1090,"medium_large-height":565,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","large-width":1090,"large-height":565,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","1536x1536-width":1090,"1536x1536-height":565,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","2048x2048-width":1090,"2048x2048-height":565,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":9,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-9.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1090,"wpvr_mobile-height":565}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

If Brooklyn-based Angel Nafis<\/a> isn\u2019t on your radar yet, she needs to be. The author of <\/span>BlackGirl Mansion<\/span><\/i> and one half of the black feminist poetry duo, <\/span>The Other Black Girl Collective <\/span><\/i>with fellow poet Morgan Parker, Nafis is making waves internationally for her tender and honest poetry that offer glimmers of hope amid the mundanity of the everyday. Nafis takes us on soaring journeys through her energetic poems, frequently leading to celestial crescendos \u2014 as exemplified in her raw and relatable poem, <\/span>Omen to get your ass up<\/span><\/i>: \u201cHere I am\/ glad to be another loud mouth\/ through an open window \/ exercising the right to be beloved.\u201d \u00a0Amen to that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sophie Collins<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Fresh from releasing her first collection last year, <\/span>Who is Mary Sue?<\/span><\/i>, Sophie Collins<\/a> is one of the most inventive and insightful poets on the UK lit scene. Frequently employing collage techniques and weaving in strands from fellow female writers including Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, Collins manipulates language to question misogynist critiques of women\u2019s writing. She resists the expectation that women\u2019s writing must be confessional, while at the same time writing bruising, magical and memorable lines such as this: \u201cMen stay away from the kitchens\u2026while the women\u2026initiate the flames into their small routines.\u201d Her book of creative non-fiction, <\/span>small white monkeys<\/span><\/i>, further exemplifies her thoughtful and experimental approach to feminist writing, dealing with themes of shame, self-help and expression post-sexual assault.<\/span><\/p>\n

Danez Smith<\/strong><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":75292,"id":75292,"title":"950x350-white-solid-color-background (12)","filename":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","filesize":405403,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/young-poets\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-12","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75269,"date":"2019-03-21 18:01:15","modified":"2019-03-21 18:01:15","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1412,"height":741,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":67,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","medium-width":1412,"medium-height":741,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","medium_large-width":1412,"medium_large-height":741,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","large-width":1412,"large-height":741,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","1536x1536-width":1412,"1536x1536-height":741,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","2048x2048-width":1412,"2048x2048-height":741,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":9,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-12.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1412,"wpvr_mobile-height":741}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

As the youngest winner of the Forward poetry prize last year, 29-year-old Danez Smith<\/a> is a leading light in the contemporary American queer poetry scene. In Smith\u2019s rousing, passionate poems, such as \u201cdear white America\u201d in which they (Smith goes by the pronoun they) fearlessly declare, \u201cI do not trust the God you have given us\u2026 Take your God back,\u201d Smith presents an unflinching vision of what it means to be marginalised in America. Carefully handling difficult topics including their HIV-positive diagnosis, police violence and race, Davis is not only an outstanding orator, but an eloquent and measured wordsmith, who understands the beauty and bravery of words in equal measure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebecca Tam\u00e1s<\/strong><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":75290,"id":75290,"title":"950x350-white-solid-color-background (13)","filename":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","filesize":257566,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/young-poets\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-13-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75269,"date":"2019-03-21 17:53:42","modified":"2019-03-21 17:53:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":950,"height":640,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":86,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","medium-width":950,"medium-height":640,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","medium_large-width":950,"medium_large-height":640,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","large-width":950,"large-height":640,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","1536x1536-width":950,"1536x1536-height":640,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","2048x2048-width":950,"2048x2048-height":640,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-13.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":950,"wpvr_mobile-height":640}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

With her debut collection out this week, intriguingly titled WITCH<\/em><\/a>, York-based poet Rebecca <\/a><\/span>Tam\u00e1s<\/a> is a name to know. Her work artfully weaves earthy and visceral feminist expression with dark occult visions that delve into difficult topics \u2014 consent, pain, sexual expression, vulnerability. In her poem, “Joan of Arc”, from her earlier pamphlet, Savage<\/em>, Tam\u00e1s plays with expectations of the feminine, writing with brilliant bravado: “<\/span>You are funny to ask if I\u2019m a virgin\/ because, of course, I fucked myself.” For Tam\u00e1s, the goal is to infiltrate sanitised society with shock and splinters of bright, imperfect possibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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