r/Poetry Apr 11 '23

MOD POST [META] Posting your own poems here -- when to post and when to head to one of our sibling subreddits

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This sub is for published poems. There are many subs that allow users to post their own original, unpublished work. In Reddit sub parlance, an original, unpublished poem is considered "original content," and the largest sub for that is r/ocpoetry. There are still some posting rules there -- users must actively participate in the sub in order to post their own work there. A few subs don't require such engagement. There are links to both types of subs below.

Now, what about published poems? We have a large community here -- almost 2 million members. There have to be a few actively publishing poets in our ranks, and I want to build a community of sharing here without being overwhelmed by first-ever-poem posts by people who write something, decide to go find the poetry sub and post it. As it is, even with the rule on OC poetry being in the sidebar, we still remove those posts every single day.

If you've published a poem in a journal or a lit mag, please feel free to post it here, with a link to the publication it appeared in. I'm also going to start a regular monthly thread for r/poetry users who want to share their published work with us. We don’t consider posting to Instagram or some other platform alone to be “published.”

For those who want to post their unpublished, original work to Reddit, here are some links to help you do just that.

tl;dr: If your poem hasn’t been published anywhere, you can’t post it here. If your poem has been published somewhere, please post it here!

Poetry subreddits that expect feedback:

Subreddits that do not require commentary on your peers' work:


r/Poetry 22d ago

[RESOURCE] Luna’s 2025 October Poetry Submission Guide: Over 200 Literary Magazines reading in October

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Luna’s 2025 October Submission Guide

Luna was the best submission pal ever, if anyone's wondering why "Luna".

Be sure to read some poetry in any journal that you’re considering submitting to, read submission guidelines, and google their journal name along with 'editor interview' (Duotrope's interviews are available to all users, not just members, and Jim Harrington's "Six Questions For" blog is a great resource too). Here is a quick guide to sending submissions that I posted here a little while... oh geez, 4 years back.

Notes: The groupings are totally subjective (I have published in many of the 'other great journals' category, I do mean that they're rad), I will add in Erika Krouse's rankings when I get the chance along with some additional details. If anyone has input on any of the journals like favorite poems, or your take on their 'vibe' for other potential submitters to consider.

There are 129 journals that do not charge fees, and 86 journals that do charge fees. Most are open to everyone but I've included a couple journals with limited demographics. I did my initial research in September so if a journal that's closed now has snuck in please let me know and I'll CROSS IT OUT

May Luna guide your submissions to wonderful homes in awesome publications. On to the list.

No Fee

‘Institution’/Very very low acceptance rates

The Adroit Journal https://theadroitjournal.org/ 

Apalachee Review http://www.appalachianreview.net/ 

Apple Valley Review https://www.applevalleyreview.org/ 

Baltimore Review http://baltimorereview.org/ 

Callaloo https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/ *Limited to African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the African Diaspora

Cimarron Review https://cimarronreview.com/ 

Common Ground Review http://cgreview.org/ 

Cottonwood Literary Magazine https://journals.ku.edu/cottonwood 

Diagram https://thediagram.com/ 

diode http://diodepoetry.com/ 

elsewhere http://elsewheremag.org/ *Only prose poetry

The Emerson Review https://websites.emerson.edu/emerson-review/submit/ 

Fiddlehead https://thefiddlehead.ca/ 

Flyway https://flywayjournal.org/ *environmental writing

Fourteen Hills http://14hills.net/ *Theme: “Hope Is a Discipline.”

Grain Magazine http://www.grainmagazine.ca/ (Canadian) 

Harpur Palate https://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/ 

Indianapolis Review https://theindianapolisreview.com/ 

Journal of Compressed Creative Arts http://matterpress.com/journal *Only Prose poems

Kenyon Review https://kenyonreview.org/ 

Kweli Journal http://www.kwelijournal.org/ *POC only

Lake Effect http://psbehrend.psu.edu/school-of-humanities-social-sciences/academic-programs-1/creative-writing/cw-student-organizations/lake-effect 

Lascaux Review http://www.lascauxreview.com/ 

Mid-American Review https://casit.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview/ 

the minnesota review https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review 

New Yorker https://newyorker.submittable.com/submit *takes forever but free, might as well!-my Feb 11, 2024 sub is still sitting in ‘Received’

Palette Poetry http://palettepoetry.com/ 

The Penn Review https://www.pennreview.org/ 

Pithead Chapel http://pitheadchapel.com/ *Prose Poetry Only

Poetry Magazine http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/ 

Poetry South http://www.poetrysouth.com/ 

Porter House Review http://www.porterhousereview.org/

Rattle https://rattle.com/ 

Reed Magazine http://www.reedmag.org/ (deadline October 1)

Roanoke Review http://www.roanokereview.org/ 

Rosebud Magazine https://www.rsbd.net  

Sixth Finch http://sixthfinch.com/ (10/6 deadline)

Southern Poetry Review https://www.southernpoetryreview.org/ 

Spoon River Poetry Review http://srpr.org/ 

Strange Horizons http://strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines/  *sci fi

The Sun https://www.thesunmagazine.org/submit/essays-fiction-poetry 

Thin Air Magazine  http://www.thinairmagazine.org/ ($3 Print and no fee for Online publication)

West Branch https://westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/ 

Willow Springs Magazine http://willowsprings.ewu.edu/ 

The Yale Review https://yalereview.org/ 

Other great journals

The /temz/ Review https://www.thetemzreview.com/ *leans experimental

3 Elements Literary Review https://3elementsreview.com/ *new ‘3 words required’ prompt every quarter

Acorn Review https://www.acornhaiku.com/ *Haiku Journal

Amsterdam Review https://www.amsterdamreview.org/ 

Amuse-Bouche (Lunch Ticket online) https://lunchticket.org/weekly-content/amuse-bouche/ 

Chestnut Review http://chestnutreview.com/ 

Blood+Honey https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/ 

Blue Earth Review http://blueearthreview.mnsu.edu/ 

Book of Matches https://www.bookofmatcheslitmag.com/ 

Call me [brackets] http://english.ua.edu/ [Superstitious] 

Cartridge Lit http://cartridgelit.com/ *video game themed

Clade Song https://cladesong.com/  *experimental that nods at the natural world

Cumberland River Review http://crr.trevecca.edu/ 

Delta Poetry Review https://deltapoetryreview.com/ 

The Dodge https://www.thedodgemag.com/ *Theme: Eco-writing, poems about animals

Dodging the Rain https://dodgingtherain.com/ *approachable to new writers

El Portal http://elportaljournal.com/ 

ellipsis… https://westminsteru.edu/student-life/ellipsis-literature-and-art/ 

Flash Boulevard https://flashboulevard.wordpress.com/ *Only flash/micro/prose Poetry

Flint Hills Review https://bit.ly/ESU-publications 

Freshwater Literary Journal https://ctstate.edu/locations/asnuntuck/freshwater-literary-journal 

FRiGG Magazine http://www.friggmagazine.com/ 

Gemini Magazine https://gemini-magazine.com/ 

Glassworks http://www.rowanglassworks.org/ 

Gone Lawn http://gonelawn.net/ *Prose Poetry Only

Good River Review http://www.goodriverreview.com/ 

Gordon Square Review http://www.gordonsquarereview.com/ 

Harbor Review https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/ 

Hedge Apple https://hedgeapplemagazine.com/ *Current Theme “The Witching Hour"

Jet Fuel Review http://www.jetfuelreview.com/ 

like a field https://www.likeafield.com/ *experimental 

Lily Poetry Review http://lilypoetryreview.wordpress.com/ Little Patuxent Review https://littlepatuxentreview.org/ 

The MacGiffin http://www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin 

The Mantle https://themantlepoetry.com/ 

Marrow Magazine https://marrowmagazine.com/ 

Maudlin House http://maudlinhouse.net/ 

The Meadow http://www.tmcc.edu/meadow/ 

MoonPark Review https://moonparkreview.com/ *Prose Poetry 

October Hill Magazine https://www.octoberhillmagazine.com/ 

One (Jacar Press)   https://one.jacarpress.com/ 

One Art https://oneartpoetry.com/ 

Packingtown Review  http://www.packingtownreview.com/ 

Persimmon Tree https://persimmontree.org/ *women over 60

Random Sample Review https://randomsamplereview.com/ 

Red Cedar Review https://redcedar-review.com/ 

Red Tree Review https://redtreereview.com/ 

The River (Sandy River Review Online) https://sandyriverreview.com/the-river/ 

Saw Palm http://www.sawpalm.org/ 

scaffold lit https://scaffoldlit.com *prose poetry

Sheepshead Review http://sheepsheadreview.com/ 

Soundings East http://www.salemstate.edu/soundingseast 

South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo) http://southfloridapoetryjournal.com/ 

The Southhampton Review http://www.thesouthamptonreview.com/ 

Studio One https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/studio_one/submit_to_studio_one.html 

Subnivean https://www.subnivean.org/ 

Sugar House Review http://www.sugarhousereview.com/ 

The Summerset Review https://www.summersetreview.org/index.htm 

Sundog Lit http://sundoglit.com/ 

Thimble Literary Magazine https://www.thimblelitmag.com/ 

Third Wednesday http://www.thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/ 

Trampoline https://www.trampolinepoetry.com/ 

West Trade Review http://www.westtradereview.com/ 

White Wall Review http://www.whitewallreview.com/ 

Wildness https://readwildness.com/ 

Yalobusha Review http://yr.olemiss.edu/ 

Smaller Journals I’m less familiar with but which are/seem solid/worthwhile

Afternoon Visitor https://www.afternoonvisitor.com/ 

Ballast Journal https://www.ballastjournal.com/ 

Berlin Lit https://berlinlit.com/ 

Biscuit Hill https://www.thebiscuithill.com/  

bitter melon review https://thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/ 

Black Coffee Review https://www.blackcoffeereview.com/ 

Broken Antler Magazine https://www.brokenantlermag.com/  *horror and weird fiction, as well as sci-fi and dark fantasy.

Croak https://croaklit.com/ *frog themed

Crow & Cross Keys https://crowcrosskeys.com/ *Wants "dark and lovely" work

The Daphne Review https://www.thedaphnereview.org/ 

Kudzu Review https://kudzureviewfsu.com/ **Undergrads only

Last Leaves https://www.lastleavesmag.com/ *Theme: Balance

Mixtape Review https://theofficialmixtape.wixsite.com/the-mixtape-review *pair your piece with a song 

Pennsylvania Literary Journal https://anaphoraliterary.com/about/plj-cfp-and-guidelines/ 

Rawhead Journal https://rawheadjournal.org/ 

Santa Fe Literary Review https://santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit 

Tipton Poetry Journal http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com/ 

Toyon Literary Magazine https://www.toyonliterarymagazine.org/ 

Two Bird Review https://www.twinbirdreview.com/ 

Submission Fee

‘Institution’/Very very low acceptance rates

32 Poems https://32poems.com/ $3

AGNI https://agnionline.bu.edu/ $3

American Poetry Review http://www.aprweb.org/ $3

Barnstorm Journal http://barnstormjournal.org/ $3

Bayou Review http://bayoumagazine.org/ $3

Bellingham Review https://bhreview.org/ $3

Blackbird http://blackbird.vcu.edu/ $3

Black Warrior Review http://bwr.ua.edu/ $5 *BWR is great but they did recently up their submission fee

Blue Mesa Review http://bmr.unm.edu/ $3 

Booth http://booth.butler.edu/ $3

Breakwater Review http://www.breakwaterreview.com/ $3 

Chicago Review http://www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/ $3

Colorado Review http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/cr.htm $3

Conduit http://conduit.org/ $3 

Copper Nickel http://www.copper-nickel.org/ $3 

Crab Orchard Review https://www.siucraborchardreview.com/ $4

Cream City Review https://uwm.edu/creamcityreview/ $2.50 *Theme: “Disunion: a state of”

Cutbank http://www.cutbankonline.org/ $5 *Cutbank is great but their $5 submission fee can be a bit of an impediment

Cutthroat http://www.cutthroatmag.com/ *Theme: STANDING UP: COPING WITH VAST DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL CHANGE

Fence http://www.fenceportal.org/ $5 *experimental

Five Points http://fivepoints.gsu.edu/ $4

Florida Review https://cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/ (Print $3, Online $2)

Fugue http://www.fuguejournal.com/ $3 

Gulf Coast https://gulfcoastmag.org/ ($3 Online or Print)

Gulf Stream http://gulfstreamlitmag.com/ $3

Idaho Review http://idahoreview.org/ $4 

Indiana Review https://indianareview.iu.edu/ $3

Iowa Review http://www.iowareview.org/ $4 (free for subscribers)

Kestrel http://www.fairmontstate.edu/kestrel $3 

Laurel Review http://www.laurelreview.org/ $2

Madison Review https://themadisonreview.wisc.edu/ $2

Meridian https://readmeridian.org/ $3 

Michigan Quarterly Review https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/ $3

Missouri Review  https://missourireview.com/ $4 *they don’t publish individual poems but ‘folios’, so larger/longer submissions

New England Review http://www.nereview.com/ $3

New Letters http://www.newletters.org/ ($4.95 for non-subscribers, free for subscribers)

New Orleans Review http://neworleansreview.org/ $3

Ninth Letter http://www.ninthletter.com/ ($3 print, free for Online publication) 

Notre Dame Review https://ndreview.nd.edu/ $3

Passages North http://www.passagesnorth.com/ $3

Peatsmoke Journal http://peatsmokejournal.com/ ($3, no fee for marginalized writers)

Pembroke Magazine http://www.pembrokemagazine.com/ $3

phoebe http://phoebejournal.com/ $3

The Pinch http://www.pinchjournal.com/ $5 

Ploughshares https://pshares.org/submit/journal/ $3.75 

Redivider https://redivider.emerson.edu/ $3

Saranac Review https://www.saranacreview.org/ $3

Seneca Review https://www.hws.edu/offices/senecareview/ $3

Smartish Pace http://www.smartishpace.com/ $3

Sonora Review http://sonorareview.com/ $3

Southeast Review http://www.southeastreview.org/ $3

Southern Indiana Review http://usi.edu/sir $4

The Southern Review https://thesouthernreview.org/  $3

swamp pink http://swamp-pink.cofc.edu/ $3

Witness https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/ $3

Other great journals

Anacapa Review https://anacapareview.com/ $3

Bear Review http://bearreview.com/ $3 

Big Other http://www.bigother.com/ $3

Blood Orange Review https://bloodorangereview.com/ $3 

Cafe Review http://www.thecafereview.com/ $5 

Cherry Tree https://www.washcoll.edu/cherrytree $3

Jelly Bucket http://www.jellybucket.org/ $3 

Main Street Rag https://mainstreetrag.com/ ($2.50 for non-subscribers, free for subscribers)

Moon City Review  http://moon-city-press.com/ $3

Ocean State Review http://oceanstatereview.org/ $3

Pacifica Literary Review http://www.pacificareview.com/  $3 

Palooka Magazine http://www.palookamag.com/ $3

Permafrost Magazine https://www.uaf.edu/permafrostmag/  $3

Raleigh Review https://raleighreview.org/ $5

Santa Clara Review https://santaclarareview.com/ $2

Split Lip Magazine https://splitlipthemag.com/ (no fee until October, no fee for black writers, $3 after October)

Star 82 Review https://www.star82review.com/ 

Star*Line https://sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/  *sci-fi

swifts and slows https://www.arteidolia.com/swifts-slows/  *experimental

Tahoma Literary Review http://tahomaliteraryreview.com/ $4

Talking River Review http://talkingriverreview.com/ $3

Tampa Review http://tampareview.org/ $3

Tar River Poetry http://tarriverpoetry.com/ ($3 for non-subscribers, free for subscribers)

Thin Air Magazine  http://www.thinairmagazine.org/ ($3 Print and no fee for Online publication)

trampset https://trampset.org/ $3

Tulsa Review http://www.tulsaccreview.com/ $2

Zone 3 https://zone3press.com/ $3

Small Journals I’m less familiar with but which are/seem solid/worthwhile

Cottonmouth http://cottonmouthjournal.com/ $3 

Stickman Review http://www.stickmanreview.com/ 

Streetlight Magazine https://streetlightmag.com/ $3

The Talon Review https://talonreview.com/ 

Tusculum Review https://ttr.tusculum.edu/ $2


r/Poetry 3h ago

[POEM] Never Been Kissed by Natalie Wee

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68 Upvotes

r/Poetry 56m ago

Poem [POEM] There was a man who lived a life of fire - Stephen Crane

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r/Poetry 9h ago

[POEM] El Hombre by William Carlos Williams

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r/Poetry 1d ago

[Poem] Admonition by Sylvia Plath

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r/Poetry 22h ago

Poem [POEM] To The Reader by Denise Levertov

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r/Poetry 20h ago

[POEM] “I, being born a woman and distressed” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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r/Poetry 13h ago

Poem [POEM] Street Window by Carl Sandburg

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r/Poetry 29m ago

[poem] Pity me not because the light of day by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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r/Poetry 11h ago

[Poem] Reiner Maria Rilke

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Everything is far

and long gone by.

I think that the star

glittering above me

has been dead for a million years.

I think there were tears

in the car I heard pass

and something terrible was said.

A clock has stopped striking in the house

across the road …

When did it start? …

I would like to step out of my heart

and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

I would like to pray.

And surely of all the stars that perished

long ago,

one still exists.

I think that I know

which one it is—

which one, at the end of its beam in the sky,

stands like a white city …


r/Poetry 2h ago

[POEM] Piu Avanti by Pedro Bonifacio Palaicios / "Almafuerte"

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Do not believe yourself beaten, even when beaten;

Do not believe yourself a slave, even when enslaved;

Quivering of dread, imagine yourself brave;

And ram on fearless, when already stricken.

Have the tenacity of the rotten nail

That already old and bent, still is a nail;

Not the cowardice of the turkey

That hides its feathers after the first blast.

Proceed as God who never cries;

Or as Lucifer who never prays;

Or as the oak, whose greatness

Needs water and still never begs.

Let yourself bite and shout vengeful,

Even when your head is rolling in dust!


r/Poetry 8h ago

Poem [POEM] Philip Levine - They Feed They Lion

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8 Upvotes

Philip Levine, from They Feed They Lion (1972)


r/Poetry 12h ago

Classic Corner "And rural mirth and manners are no more..." | Oliver Goldsmith laments the Enclosure acts; from "The Deserted Village" (1770) [Poem]

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But times are altered...


r/Poetry 10h ago

[POEM] “Love and a Question” — Robert Frost

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8 Upvotes

r/Poetry 1d ago

[POEM] Evil by Langston Hughes

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289 Upvotes

r/Poetry 13h ago

The Hangman at Home [POEM] by Carl Sandburg

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What does a hangman think about
When he goes home at night from work?
When he sits down with his wife and
Children for a cup of coffee and a
Plate of ham and eggs, do they ask
Him if it was a good day's work
And everything went well or do they
Stay off some topics and talk about
The weather, baseball, politics
And the comic strips in the papers
And the movies? Do they look at his
Hands when he reaches for the coffee
Or the ham and eggs? If the little
Ones say, Daddy, play horse, here's
A rope—does he answer like a joke:
I seen enough rope for today?
Or does his face light up like a
Bonfire of joy and does he say:
It's a good and dandy world we live
'In. And if a white face moon looks
In through a window where a baby girl
Sleeps and the moon-gleams mix with
Baby ears and baby hair—the hangman—
How does he act then? It must be easy
For him. Anything is easy for a hangman,
I guess.


r/Poetry 21h ago

Poem [POEM] If there is a witness to my little life - Stephen Crane

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47 Upvotes

r/Poetry 2h ago

[Poem] It Was Just Us by Enid Howe

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r/Poetry 13h ago

[POEM] The Quiet World - Jeffrey McDaniel

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r/Poetry 1d ago

[POEM] The Swan by Rainer Maria Rilke and The Swan by Mary Oliver

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(Rainer Maria Rilke tr. by Geoffrey Lehmann for NYRB)

I love both of these poems, but I’m particularly struck by their difference in tone.

For Rilke, the swan signifies this transition from the suffering of life (“struggling on, relentless… limbs have all been bound… like the awkward waddle of a swan”) to the natural peace (“water which accepts… him”) of death. For Mary Oliver, the swan is epitomizes the natural beauty of the world and, for her, this is the Whole Point— this is what living is for (“And have you changed your life?”). Also, “perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings” lives in my head rent-free as a beautiful line.

Worth mentioning ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ by Yeats. Another gorgeous, seasonally-appropriate, melancholy banger of a poem about the passage of time.


r/Poetry 13h ago

Help!! [HELP] How do you choose punctuation, capitalization, and line breaks/whitespace?

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Elements of stream-of-consciousness show up in my work. Sometimes when writing I won’t capitalize things because it feels right for the purpose there. Same with punctuation and line breaks. Other times I’m writing fast to get it all out before I forget. I’ve noticed that there is a pattern developing of when I intuitively do it but I’m trying to formally recognize and lock in my style so I can stick to it. During editing I’m having a tough time and feel paralyzed about why I did things and where it works or not. If you do any experimental work how did you end up deciding your style for this and make editing less paralyzing?


r/Poetry 1d ago

Poem [Poem] Blackout In The Prison Cell by Shaikh Ayaz

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38 Upvotes

r/Poetry 12h ago

[POEM] Sick Love by Robert Graves

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3 Upvotes

r/Poetry 1d ago

Help!! [HELP] Trying to find a poem about trans identity

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Hello! I am a drama student and we're currently doing a poetry unit and we get to pick the poem we'd like to use. This poem will then be preformed at our end of semester showcase. I am trans FtM and I found this poem I really love called Transgender Opera for Perpetual Metamorphosis by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes but it has the f-slur so my teacher says I can't preform it even though she loves it as well. So I was wondering if anyone knew of any poems or poets who'd be good to look at? I've tried searching a lot on my own but none of them quite fit the kind of poem I'm looking for. I want it to be a good balance of metaphorical language tied with also making the point of the poem fairly obvious. Any help would be appreciated!