Reader Feedback to my Poetry Zines by Stav Meishar

2025-08-19 15:34:12 UTC

Hellooo 👋 just wanted to say that I picked up your zine in bookhaus about summer break up and it's exactly what I needed and feels like I'm reading about myself. So thank you ❤️

2025-08-19 17:03:39 UTC

I love your unique ability to utilize creativity for emotional and processing, your own brand of art therapy. It's so touching, moving and real ❤️

2025-08-19 17:19:58 UTC

Brilliant, beautifully written, and so relatable

2025-08-19 18:18:54 UTC

There's a long history of painful post-relationship artistic expression. Art is its own truth, and pettiness has never outshined art.

pseudo-poetry

2025-08-19 18:22:16 UTC

Sadgirl captions

Gut punch familiarity

2025-08-19 18:49:48 UTC

These mini poems ring with the universal gong of broken hearts across time and space. Beautifully wrought and deeply familiar in their mourning.

2025-08-20 09:20:21 UTC

Hey! I think it’s great and freeing to write your feelings and I commend you for it!

These are great, so very relateable right now

2025-08-20 11:33:37 UTC

2025-08-20 12:41:13 UTC

Beautiful, touching and very real.

Hope you find a guy willing to keep goat cheese for you soon

You do everything so fully

2025-08-20 15:46:47 UTC

I enjoyed the poems and pictures. I love the way the truth comes out in full - the sad and the good, the neglect and thoughtlessness with the desire and attachment. I can imagine why someone wouldn’t want it to exist, but that's just validating it

I think the whole thing is bloody brilliant!

contact5561 — 2025-08-21 16:51:06 UTC

All too familiar

2025-08-22 15:54:19 UTC

It really sucks that sometimes we have to go through the hardest stuff to make the best art. These are really good and sadly relatable. Captures the way in which thoughtful, gracious AFAB care and love are taken for granted and used as needed and tossed

stavmakes — 2025-10-06 01:51:22 UTC

I love the autumn imagery! The symbolism and association with autumn and "letting dead things go"

It's a difficult read in places but very poignant and beautifully curated with the images.

Soooo good!

stavmakes — 2025-10-06 01:53:31 UTC

Well written, beautifully designed, and tying it all up with Robert Frost at the end was chef's kiss

I Could Feel Your Pain

2025-10-29 11:43:37 UTC

So beautifully written...I could feel every bit of it. This is poetry born from survival!

Wow, I think these are your best poems yet!

2026-01-12 08:23:31 UTC

They are beautifully crafted and absolutely brilliant. I love the witches poem and the Nina Simone Poem especially. The last verse of the Valentines in Wales poem is so spot on!

I think the order you have collated them in is right and makes sense from a storytelling point of view. Great job!

2026-01-21 14:08:05 UTC

i’ve been single for so long and haven’t had a long term relationship in nearly two decades, so i have thankfully rarely felt the pain of a broken heart… or perhaps i forgot how painful it was to have my young heart broken so… upon further investigation, perhaps i’ve avoided such relationships entirely all this time for all the reasons you so eloquently ached into your poetry. maybe i should spin some therapeutic artful words of my own on why i am still single. thanks for the inspo!

2026-01-29 09:43:54 UTC

I'm reading your poems, word after word... They're a piece of dark chocolate, shiny and aromatic, melting in the mouth. Amplified experience. Like a drug, this chocolate. Enchanting me. These words melt melt melt in my heart... The enchantment is strong!

2026-02-07 16:01:18 UTC

Like a scab I can't help but pick. Painful, itchy but oddly satisfying to slowly pick at the sides. Your poetry stopped me from picking today.

Right in the gut

2026-04-02 18:36:49 UTC

As someone who put in sooo much care and thought into everything for partners who don't / can't / won't... This hits right in the gut.

I love that it moved from the brutal pain of the last moments, when you finally know it's over, to the lovely joy of moving on and catharsis.

I really enjoy your perspectives on relationships. Overall such a cool series! It's both really relatable, and also clearly tells your unique story.

The poem about your metamour...

2026-04-05 09:13:30 UTC

There is something profound and beautiful about the specific matters of little consequence you chose to highlight here. Yours are the tender burdens of emotional labor in relationship that are so often borne predominantly by women/femmes. As such, I find a layer of tragedy here: Where those matters are a point of connection of women, you write of them as the source of tension and distance.

Vivid and Mature

2026-04-10 20:23:45 UTC

This Spring book not only stands on its own two feet, but also feels like the completion of a cycle of grieving in the context of the other books. It reads less angry and hurt, as some of the previous books have, and more introspective. The imagery is stark (the determination of a snowdrop, reading Sylvia Plath like a town crier), the phrasing moving (a stranger in the land of Meanwhile). There is something about these particular poems that captures pain and resignation, but also hope. A fitting bookend.

2026-04-25 14:45:57 UTC

I am not one for poetry.

Normally I just don't get it but your little zine, that I found at a queer dating event, sparked a little thing in me.

2026-04-26 22:21:29 UTC

The first poem really resonated! I think it's my favourite. Really poignant. I also really liked the poem about blossoming, it read hopeful and sweet 🌸

WOW that Burning Bush poem!

2026-05-03 15:31:13 UTC

This poem is hot, both literally and figuratively! As a person who absolutely is prone to setting themselves on fire to keep others warm, the imagery of immolation in this piece was deeply resonant to me.

The last line of the second stanza hit me square in the chest for that reason. The notion that no amount of self-generosity (or self sacrifice) can make someone change if they don't want to is a painful lesson that takes a long time to learn.

I can absolutely sense the layered agony and ecstasy of that split-open heart, and the multiple readings join to form a deeply moving composite image.