Like their confessional predecessors, contemporary American post-confessional poets courageously explore personal psychic spaces linked with mental illness, family dysfunctions or suicidal issues rooted in past traumas. This type of poetry thrives on a controversial blurring of the boundaries between the space of biography and that of art, which has exercised a considerable fascination on the reading public. At the same time, this has also attracted fierce criticism coming from literary scholars for whom the apparent obliteration of the necessary separation between private and public spaces represents a serious aesthetic drawback. This chapter aims to explore artistic strategies used by post- or neo-confessional poets like Sharon Olds, Yusef Komunyakaa and Olena Kalytiak Davis in their attempt to achieve a more socially relevant self-awareness through discursive expansions of perceptual, emotional and intellectual spatiality.