What are some of y’all’s favorite poems about poverty, the working class, money fear? - ThreadSky

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ivertownandcountry.bsky.social • 50 days ago

What are some of y’all’s favorite poems about poverty, the working class, money fear?

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Sarah Freligh focuses on this, here's "Donut Delight"

Alejandro Lucero's broader work focuses on this a lot (his chapbook Sapello Son is fantastic, here's a sample from Verse Daily

Lynn Emmanuel has poems about this too, here's "Frying Trout while Drunk"

Tom Lux is great too, "Backyard Swingset"

toddedillard.bsky.social•50 days ago

sorry to bombard!

ivertownandcountry.bsky.social•50 days ago

No this is so welcome thank you!!!!

derekjgwilliams.bsky.social•50 days ago

Levine is the first one that comes to mind, but probably Clifton too. I’ll have to dig through the books later when I’m home.

taylorbyas.bsky.social•49 days ago

Lillian Yvonne-Bertram’s NEGATIVE MONEY has some fantastic ones!

mistlemoon.bsky.social•50 days ago

Some people by Rita Anna Higgins. Strong language, in all senses of the phrase.

https://www.lyrikline.org/en/authors/rita-ann-higgins

esylviapoet.bsky.social•50 days ago

https://poems.com/poem/i-want-to-tell-you-what-poverty-gave-me/

esylviapoet.bsky.social•50 days ago

And "Money" by Raymond Carver, down the page here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=145&issue=5&page=5

shipmanagency.bsky.social•50 days ago

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/what-work-is

sarahpoetica.bsky.social•50 days ago

This poem still haunts me: https://rivermouthreview.com/issue-6-place/rachel-walters

grousehollow.bsky.social•47 days ago

Sarah Cleghorn’s “The Golf Links”:

The Golf Links

The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.

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