Evolution by Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles | Evolution | These new poems upend genre in a vernacular that enacts, like nothing else, the way we speak (inside and out) today. From walking around Marfa and New
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Not I, But Death by Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich | Not I, But Death | First edition of the poet’s extremely rare first book, privately printed by her parents when she was just ten years old. Adrienne Rich’s father was th
Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy Martin
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
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
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
Gay and Lesbian Poetry by James J. Wilhelm
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
Between Our Selves by Audre Lorde
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
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
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