Dawn Lundy Martin | Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life | Imagine if someone spilled a puzzle in your lap. You can see at once that the pieces are beautifully made and deftly cut. They have fine edges, sharp
Charles Baudelaire | The Flowers of Evil | The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century F
James J. Wilhelm | Gay and Lesbian Poetry | From Library Journal
Rutgers medievalist Wilhelm’s ambitious survey collects European homoerotic poetry from 7th century B.C.E. Greece throug
Audre Lorde | Between Our Selves | These two small volumes (Between Our Selves and If You Want To Know Me by P. Halsey, G. Morían and M. Smith ) melt together like Yin and Yang to form
George Sterling | Strange Waters | A narrative poem that H. L. Mencken rejected as ‘unfit’ for his magazine subscribers because of its ‘lesbian’ leanings. There was apparently some disc
Michelle Cliff | Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise | “To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power – pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen
Sarah Pinder | Common Place | Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messag
Arisa White | You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened | Trump became president-elect on November 8th [2016] and ever since all of the queer people of color, women of color in my life have been texting. Ever
JoSelle Vanderhooft | The Memory Palace | The rooms in The Memory Palace are filled with holy relics, profane agonies, memories that are revelations, and windows to wonders . . .A significant
Makhosazana Xaba | Like the Untouchable Wind | This book is a choir of voices of women who selfidentify as lesbian and bisexual. Using poetry they share their experiences, their feelings and their