4 Up-and-coming Female Poets to Watch
March is Women’s History Month which gives us another excuse to rave about our favorite female writers. Here are four magical women that should be on your radar for their strength, courage, poetry, and resilience.
Sana Abuleil
you weren’t
close enough to touch
but not far enough
to forget.
and although
you didn’t
say a word
your voice
still echoes
through my head.
letters to the person i was, Sana Abuleil’s latest collection of poems, where she writes what she wishes someone had said to her when she was a young girl, within her times of struggle, heartbreak, loneliness, and brokenness. With four chapters titled “the innocence,” “the refusing,” “the understanding,” and “the growing,” this up-and-coming poet takes readers on a journey of pain and hope with the powerful message that life is still worth living.
Ramcharan
maybe it’s time
to pull back the parts
of yourself you pushed away
when you thought you were healing
You can find K Ramcharan’s poetry under the Instagram handle @starsoulpoetry. With a pink and floral aesthetic, her page is likely to catch your eye before you even delve into her words. Her poetry speaks about self-love, reconnecting with one’s true self, love and passion within relationships and being unapologetically herself.
Mackenzie Campell
you say you want
us to survive the
flames, and yet you
feed the fire
everytime you
walk away
After the wild success of her debut collection of poems, 2am Thoughts, Mackenzie Campell is still a poet to watch with the release of her latest book, Nineteen. This new collection is inspired by her experience transitioning into adulthood, filled with intimate personal accounts of love and heartbreak, loss and the complicated emotions that come with adolescence. You can find more of her poetry on her Instagram account, @makenzie.campbell.poetry.
Elisabet Velasquez
I want to dance
slowly
with the moon
wrapped around my waist.
Give me a night
where i belong
to nothing
but my mistakes.
Elisabet is no stranger to spoken word. She has performed at a number of noteworthy locations such as Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, Pregones Theatre, Bushwick Starr Theatre, The Bowery Poetry Club, Brooklyn Museum and Museum Of Natural History. Her poetry speaks to and about feminism, body positivity, sex, love, mental illness, education, and women’s choices through an intersectional lens. She also teaches online courses on poetry and is available for speaking events. This inspirational woman is on the rise and won’t be stopping anytime soon.
