r/Poetry

Hi all,

My friends are organising a lovely poetry reading evening. Do you know like this one that could be interesting to recite?

I’d like something critical of society, like We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky. It’s just so good! I can’t use that poem unfortunately, because I’m sure they all already know it.

Super bonus points if any of you knows a good poem that is critical about Jeff Bezos/amazon or even consumer culture in particular. lol. But probably that’s a stretch.

This poem was published this year on the first day of National Poetry Month, in Deep South Magazine. It’s my second published poem since I started writing last October.

https://deepsouthmag.com/2026/04/01/the-gardener/

Enjoy!

Enjoying these little poems as spring starts up again. This is from “The Book of the Flower Fairies”. Each one has an illustration.