Strange Waters by George Sterling
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
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Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise by Michelle Cliff
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
Common Place by Sarah Pinder
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
You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White
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
The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft
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
Like the Untouchable Wind by Makhosazana Xaba
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
Women Poems/Love Poems by Susan Sherman
Susan Sherman | Women Poems/Love Poems | In lieu of a review, here is one of the poems:
POEM TO A WORD UNSPOKEN
You pull me toward you
You fill me My body reaching
toward
Journeys on the Living by Lynda Koolish
Lynda Koolish | Journeys on the Living | Poems, photographs, drawings.
The Old Philosopher by Vi Khi Nao
Vi Khi Nao | The Old Philosopher | The Old Philosopher is enigmatic, sexual, biblical, anachronistic, political, and personal all at once. These quiet, implosive poems inhabit a nonline
Evesong by Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy | Evesong | Illustrations by Celia Berridge. Includes biographical note on Duffy.