an award-winning poet discusses sufjan stevens and how music can prove our existence
https://lithub.com/the-songs-prove-that-we-were-here-ocean-vuong-on-
if you're trying to improve your craft through reading poetry, ocean vuong is your guy. my favorite poem of his is def "Wood Working at the End of the World" vuong also has this instagram story series about metaphors and it changed the way i went about writing metaphors forever. def check him out
this poem i wrote about the first dog to enter space
"jupiter's looking blue today--
staring from lightyears out at
a Moscow strayΒ
in a little space pod
getting warmer"
the talkbox, the way he transitions into a Jackson 5 song seamlessly, the host gradually shifting from amusement to awe, it's all perfect pls go watch it