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Poetry Clinic serves as a portal for users to request poems that address specific life situations they’re facing.

I snap and get stern, the kid cries

Asked by: Struggling Parent, United States

Answered by: M. NourbeSe Philip

How do I hold on to positive feelings?

Asked by: Anonymous, London, UK

Answered by: Ariel Resnikoff

Haunted by lives I cannot bear to watch

Asked by: Haunted, Philadelphia, USA

Answered by: Ariel Resnikoff

Did I choose the wrong turn

Asked by: duality, Toronto, Canada

Answered by: Ariel Resnikoff

Where does possibility live in the grammar of loss?

Asked by: Anonymous, USA

Answered by: Ariel Resnikoff

I’m in love with someone whose name I like

Asked by: J.L., Denver, USA

Answered by: Andrew Whiteman

Explain the suicide epidemic?

Asked by: A.W., Vienna, USA

Answered by: Andrew Whiteman

Is encouraging this dream prolonging a failure?

Asked by: E., Somewhere, USA

Answered by: Andrew Whiteman

How can I help my girlfriend release her emotions?

Asked by: Bubbles, Durban, South Africa

Answered by: Andrew Whiteman

How do I reconnect to writing with a sense of freedom?

Asked by: Anonymous, Santa Cruz, USA

Answered by: Andrew Whiteman

Help me learn how to sit

Asked by: Anonymous, Ontario, Canada

Answered by: Kristin Prevallet

How to deal with the end of something?

Asked by: C.E.L., Tallinn, Estonia

Answered by: Kristin Prevallet

Grandmas towards peace!

Asked by: L, Lenox, USA

Answered by: Kristin Prevallet

How to stay grounded in the face of dread and oppression?

Asked by: T.P.L., Bakersfield, USA

Answered by: Kristin Prevallet

I can’t stop thinking about her

Asked by: Anonymous, Bronx, NY, USA

Answered by: Kristin Prevallet

The institution grinds me to dust

Asked by: Anonymous, Kingston, Jamaica

Answered by: Kristin Prevallet

I was diagnosed with cancer when I was pregnant

Asked by: H., Long Beach, USA

Answered by: Diana Khoi Nguyen

I am losing my mother

Asked by: L.W., Toronto, Canada

Answered by: Diana Khoi Nguyen