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.

A Life Rebuilt in Public

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 to be corrected, but as evidence of a life fully lived. 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.

Exploring Vulnerability Through Poetry

There is an easy temptation to call Elzomor’s work “soft.” It is not. Her writing is sensual, but never ornamental; spiritual, but grounded in the real consequences of relationships and recovery. She is less interested in perfection than presence.

“The most powerful version of me is the one that feels everything,” she says.

That conviction is part of why her work has found an audience beyond traditional poetry 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.

On Humanity Feels, Elzomor explores spirituality, relationships, emotional healing and personal growth. In coaching and speaking, she returns to the same core idea: people do not heal by becoming less human. Her work suggests that greater honesty about the human experience can support reflection and personal growth.

Women and the Contemporary Poetry Scene

Elzomor is among a new generation of women developing audiences through poetry and performance. They are not treating poetry as something hushed, academic or safely confined to the page. They are helping poetry find a place in fashion, media, performance and broader conversations about identity.

For her, that is not a marketing strategy; it is a refusal to separate the artistic from the 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.

“People don’t just want to see you,” Elzomor says. “They want to feel you.”

It reflects several of the themes that characterize her work. At a time when emotional distance is often encouraged, Yasmin Elzomor is leaning all the way in. Her work presents vulnerability as a visible part of contemporary poetry and explores emotional depth as a potential source of connection.