She’s bringing poetry to new audiences: How Yasmin Elzomor is giving the art form new appeal

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New York Post · collected 2026-10-08 · by Kaitlyn Gomez

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Yasmin Elzomor is a poet and personal development coach based in New York who uses her work to explore emotional vulnerability and intimacy. Her debut poetry collection, "Past Life Lovers," delves into themes of love, heartbreak, and lingering connections from past relationships. Through various platforms including coaching, speaking engagements, and her podcast "Humanity Feels," Elzomor aims to help people transform their pain into strength by embracing honesty rather than hiding behind emotional detachment or curated personas.
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Yasmin Elzomor, a New York-based poet of Colombian and Egyptian descent, is gaining recognition for her emotionally candid approach to poetry. Her debut collection, Past Life Lovers, explores themes like love, heartbreak, and the lingering effects of past relationships. Beyond writing, Elzomor offers coaching and hosts a podcast called Humanity Feels, focusing on turning personal pain into empowerment. She believes that true strength in poetry comes from vulnerability rather than emotional detachment or a polished exterior. This perspective aligns with a broader contemporary movement within poetry that redefines what it means to be strong, emphasizing honesty over pretense.

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Heartbreak and self-reconstruction became the raw material for a new direction: first as a coach and mentor, and then as a writer whose work gives language to the things people often feel but rarely say aloud.
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Claims (36 extracted, 2 hedged)

Yasmin Elzomor is betting that people are ready to feel again. asserted
people → bet → ?
In an era built on polished feeds and detachment as a personality trait, the New York–based poet and personal development coach has made emotional candor part of her signature. asserted
candor → build → signature
Her work lives where longing, intimacy, feminine power and the messiness of becoming meet—and she is not interested in sanding down the edges. asserted
she → live → edges
Elzomor’s debut poetry collection, Past Life Lovers, explores love, heartbreak and the soul ties that can linger long after a relationship ends. asserted
relationship → explore → love
But the book is only one expression of a larger body of work: through coaching, speaking and her Humanity Feels podcast, she has built a platform around helping people turn pain into power. asserted
people → build → power
“Poetry should make you feel something,” Elzomor says. asserted
Elzomor → make → something
“The pieces that feel the most vulnerable are often the ones that resonate the deepest.” asserted
that → feel → ?
That perspective has contributed to her growing profile within contemporary poetry that is rethinking what strength looks like. asserted
strength → contribute → what
For Elzomor, it is not emotional distance or a perfectly curated exterior. asserted
it → curate → Elzomor
It is the willingness to be seen honestly—desire, grief, uncertainty and all. asserted
It → see → ?
A Life Rebuilt in Public Elzomor’s path into this work was personal before it was professional. asserted
it → rebuild → work
A spiritual awakening at 21 led her to examine the relationships, patterns and old versions of herself she had been carrying. asserted
she → lead → herself
Heartbreak and self-reconstruction became the raw material for a new direction: first as a coach and mentor, and then as a writer whose work gives language to the things people often feel but rarely say aloud. asserted
people → become → things
Her point of view is informed by a layered identity—Egyptian-Colombian, New Yorker, fashion model, writer and mentor—but she resists being reduced to any one label. asserted
she → inform → label
What connects her work is a consistent invitation: stop performing wellness and start telling the truth. asserted
connects → connect → truth
“Hiding doesn’t protect you,” she says. asserted
she → protect → you
“It keeps you small.” asserted
It → keep → you
That idea runs through Past Life Lovers, whose poems treat emotional intensity not as a flaw to be corrected, but as evidence of a life fully lived. asserted
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The collection moves through romance, loss and the strange afterlife of love with the same unguarded energy that has become central to her public work. asserted
that → move → work
Her writing is sensual, but never ornamental; spiritual, but grounded in the real consequences of relationships and recovery. asserted
writing → ground → relationships
“The most powerful version of me is the one that feels everything,” she says. asserted
she → feel → everything
That conviction is part of why her work has found an audience beyond traditional poetry spaces. asserted
work → find → spaces
She brings the emotional charge of poetry into conversations about dating, sexuality, healing and personal growth—subjects that are already dominating the culture, if rarely with this kind of openness. asserted
that → bring → openness
On Humanity Feels, Elzomor explores spirituality, relationships, emotional healing and personal growth. asserted
Elzomor → explore → spirituality
In coaching and speaking, she returns to the same core idea: people do not heal by becoming less human. asserted
people → speak → idea
Her work suggests that greater honesty about the human experience can support reflection and personal growth. uncertain
honesty → suggest → reflection
Women and the Contemporary Poetry Scene Elzomor is among a new generation of women developing audiences through poetry and performance. asserted
Elzomor → develop → poetry
They are not treating poetry as something hushed, academic or safely confined to the page. asserted
They → treat → page
They are helping poetry find a place in fashion, media, performance and broader conversations about identity. asserted
poetry → help → identity
For her, that is not a marketing strategy; it is a refusal to separate the artistic from the lived. asserted
it → separate → lived
Some of the women drawn to her work may connect with both its language and its reflections on shared experiences—for a sentence that names the ache they could not explain, or a reminder that tenderness does not make them weak. uncertain
them → draw → ache
“People don’t just want to see you,” Elzomor says. asserted
Elzomor → want → you
“They want to feel you. asserted
They → want → you
It reflects several of the themes that characterize her work. asserted
that → reflect → work
At a time when emotional distance is often encouraged, Yasmin Elzomor is leaning all the way in. asserted
Elzomor → encourage → time
Her work presents vulnerability as a visible part of contemporary poetry and explores emotional depth as a potential source of connection. asserted
work → present → connection
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