Shes bringing poetry to new audiences: How Yasmin Elzomor is giving the art form new appeal

Yasmin Elzomor is betting that people are ready to feel again.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.Her work lives where longing, intimacy, feminine power and the messiness of becoming meet—and she is not interested in sanding down the edges.Elzomor’s debut poetry collection, Past Life Lovers, explores love, heartbreak and the soul ties that can linger long after a relationship ends.

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.“Poetry should make you feel something,” Elzomor says.“The pieces that feel the most vulnerable are often the ones that resonate the deepest.”That perspective has contributed to her growing profile within contemporary poetry that is rethinking what strength looks like.

For Elzomor, it is not emotional distance or a perfectly curated exterior.It is the willingness to be seen honestly—desire, grief, uncertainty and all.Elzomor’s path into this work was personal before it was professional.

A spiritual awakening at 21 led her to examine the relationships, patterns and old versions of herself she had been carrying.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.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.

What connects her work is a consistent invitation: stop performing wellness and start telling the truth.“Hiding doesn’t protect you,” she says.“It keeps you small.”That idea runs through Past Life Lovers, whose poems treat emotional intensity not as a flaw t...