Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s National Poetry Month project: Sing the Body: A Collection of Poems Praising Our Selves!
With support from Florida International University’s Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) and Florida International University’s Center for Women and Gender Studies, we are publishing poems that celebrate body positivity and our selves.
In addition to publishing the poems as poems of the day, 10 select Sing the Body poems will be displayed on FIU’s main campus near mirrors and places where women encounter themselves. These poems will live in a dedicated portfolio on our website.
Thank you, as always, for reading and supporting SWWIM Every Day! Happy National Poetry Month!
“hoes said they wish a bitch would, & I’m a genie” -Megan Thee Stallion ain’t got much ass but I’ma grip it make him catch it with his hips two of us ridin’ to the music I puppet through my dips real hot girl shit liquored & liking the magic I cast when I throw it back fat & nasty bought a floor length mirror just to catch myself in its glances this heft this happiness Megan you mother an era of girls taught them to be savage & scholar to admire their long pink tongues—loud girls large girls you knew before it happened that men stay tryna make us dance but we twerkin’ for our damn selves musty bullet-proof unrepentantly hot
Diamond Forde is the author of Mother Body, with Saturnalia Books. She is a Callalloo and Tin House Fellow whose work has appeared in Obsidian, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review, and more. She currently lives in Asheville, NC with her partner and their dog.
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