Sims Library of Poetry

Black-owned poetry library & community space in Los Ángeles.

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"Love is like water,
a need to survive
to quench the thirst for progress and adaptation"
- Bhavya Prabhakar

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“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

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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

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"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 https://t.co/FQkfJAeqZY

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✨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.

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"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

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[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"

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sunday at echo park by Arumandhira Howard

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"can you see through me to my skeleton
can you hold my bare bones with your eyes
will you bruise my trachea too"

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oh hi,
you answered.
well lets get straight to it.
do you have time to talk about
masculinity?
-- Andrew Zaragoza

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[Poem-a-Week] 60 Towards Artesia Station by Jean-Pierre Rueda
https://t.co/7CZu4zNrYF

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[Poem-a-Week] My Mother Was a Pelican by Addisyn Clapp
https://t.co/2lwdwMHV1a

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Sims Library of Poetry: [Poem-a-Week] Synonyms for Grief by K.E. Ogden https://t.co/SCCuHmNpVT

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Sims Library of Poetry: [Poem-a-Week] Blood & Fears by S.A. Adounvo https://t.co/nb10KOHFnn

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Sims Library of Poetry: [Poem-a-Week] if grief is a visitor by Anatalia Vallez https://t.co/Vv3pFIe2L7

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Sims’s Substack: [Poem-a-Week] [currency of words] by Edward L. Canavan https://t.co/Ss4t3ctUfC