Olivia Gatwood

One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.

New American Best Friend

Stacey 

This is a mature poetry book. No cliches here. Raunchy and unforgiving of it. I underlined so many lines. Her writing is very inspiring. The way she describes things, can either be beautiful or ugly (because she is so truthful with the ugliness of the world); which motivates me to write. I liked most of the poems. A few I didn’t connect with. My favorite poem and most relatable poem is Bubblegum or Bruise. Most loved line from that poem: “blush so pink but only in private, blush so pink like lesson learned”. Enjoyed the maturity of these poems.

Emily Perkovich

I actually liked this better than Life of the Party, which I wasn’t sure would be possible. There were a couple of pieces that appear in both, so I would not recommend reading these in quick succession to each other, but having read her full length when it came out, it was nice to read the reprints again.

Shannon O’Connor 

not my favorite, there were some poems I liked but a lot I was very meh about

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Adriana Gómez 

Amelie

Maggie Gordon

Sarah Marchant

Bri Ozalas

Rachel Alexander

Kathryn 

Mandi Jayne

Corinne Falotico

Sam Pulliam

Kohana

Neva Davies

Rachel Rozdzial

Elle

peyton mckenzie

Gretchen Gomez

Marielle de Geest

New American Best Friend

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