Category: Poetry

Elsa Gidlow | Sapphic Songs | ‘Elsa Gidlow was a poet, who in 1923 published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States: On A Grey Thread. She promoted alt

Judith McDaniel | Taking Risks | Women’s Studies/Poetry

….And the risk we experience when we tell our stories truly is the risk of change: the risk that we will be changed by the

Alice Fulton; Karen Marie Christa Minns; Sybil Smith | The Wings, the Vines | Feminist poetry exploring the patriarchy, spirituality and lesbianism.

Pat Parker | Jonestown and Other Madness | From the Forward: ‘The tragedy of Jonestown [and Jim Jones] occurred in 1978. It is amazing to me that we have not demanded better explanations of wha

Regina Marler | Queer Beats | The writings that shocked America out of the 1950s. Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the ful

Trish Shields | Spirit Harvest | A volume of poetry by one of the most moving writers alive today. Often it is that which we glean within our spirits that is the grandest harvest of a

Denys Page | Sappho and Alcaeus | Poems given with Greek transcription and extensive English commentary.

Aleka Chase | The Beginning Of Difficulty | San Francisco based psychologist who works with gay/lesbian issues. First in the publisher’s poetry series.

Cheryl Clarke | Living As A Lesbian | LIVING AS A LESBIAN is Cheryl Clarke’s paean to lesbian life. Filled with sounds from her childhood in Washington, DC, the riffs of jazz musicians, an

Samiya Bashir | Where the Apple Falls | Where the Apple Falls resides at the intersections between woman & female–both human and environmental–and the concepts to which she is often linked