NettetWhat has inspired you recently? Is it a person, some art, some social media, a tv show, or something else? Share it with us! You are welcome to post images, but note that they … Nettet18. des. 2013 · In 2013, the following poems topped 200,000 views on the Button Poetry YouTube: Lily Myers’ “Shrinking Women”, Neil Hilborn’s “OCD” & “Mating Habits of the North American Hipster”, Javon Johnson’s “cuz he’s black”, Rachel Rostad’s “To JK Rowling, From Cho Chang”, Dylan Garity’s “Rigged Game” & “Friend Zone”, Guante’s …
Famous Speech Friday: Lily Myers’s “Shrinking Women”
Nettet15. nov. 2013 · First, Lily Myers’ The Shrinking Woman poem. “Watching the struggle I either mimic or hate her, And I don’t want to do either anymore but the burden of this house has followed me across the country I asked five questions in genetics class today and all of them started with the word “sorry”. NettetLily Myers enacts this understanding of poetry as communal and essential in “Letters to Ourselves.” Taking lines and phrases from the responses of gratitude and confession she received after “Shrinking Women” went viral, she constructs a poem that speaks for and to a community of women—and, more generally, all of us. “Dear poet, / I ... some might say that sunshine follows thunder
Lily Myers - "Shrinking Women" : BodyAcceptance - Reddit
Nettet13. jan. 2014 · Lily Myers intended her poem “Shrinking Women” to be a personal one. But a video of her recital at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational was … Lily Myers (born 1993/1994) was a sophomore at Wesleyan University when she attended the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2015 with a degree in sociology. In 2016, she announced the release of her debut novel, This Impossible Light, which was written in verse. Similar to the poem, the novel centered on eating disorders, body image, and transgenerational trauma. Nettet207 votes, 53 comments. I thought many of you might appreciate this. I think many of us can relate. some might say oasis song