Category: Poetry

Audre Lorde | Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) | Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-

Eileen Myles | School of Fish | The school of fish mentioned in the title poem of this book live at the bottom of the sea, but are somehow addicted to light. In her ninth book, Eilee

Brian Daly | Lesbian Trapped in a Man’s Body | It’s poetry’s answer to Temptation Island. Reality-based programming comes to poetry with Lesbian Trapped in a Man’s Body, a book that uses plain lang

Pierre Louys | The Songs of Bilitis | ‘First published in Paris in 1894, this purports to be translations of poems by a woman named Bilitis, a contemporary and acquaintance of Sappho. This

Mary Meriam | Lavender Review | Any art from a marginalized group is first dismissed as necessarily trivial or lesser because it doesn’t value the same ideals as the mainstream. It i

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn | Portraits and Protests | DedicateD to ‘Jessie Olivia Hawley, with love long endeared’

If for nothing else she is forever remembered for the following exquisitely

Jackie Kay | Other Lovers | Here she achieves great range, exploring the qualities of love in a variety of relationships rooted in the past and the present. Her poems move from t

B. L. Holmes | Rowdy and Laughing | From former bookstore owner and artist Barbara Lindquist.

Carl Morse; Joan Larkin | Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time | Review

Surpasses every previous anthology of its kind in size, in presenting both men’s and women’s writings, and in quality. — Booklist

Marilyn Hacker | Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons | A sonnet sequence of 167 poems tells the passionate story of a love affair between two women, from the erotic electricity of their first acquaintance