Category: Poetry

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

SDiane Bogus | I’m Off To See The Goddam Wizard Alright! | We are unable to provide a description at this time.

Pat Parker | Movement in Black | Amazon.com Review

This is the new, expanded edition of a groundbreaking volume of poetry first published in 1978, 11 years before Parker’s early d

Jeffrey M. Duban | The Lesbian Lyre | Hailed by Plato as the ‘Tenth Muse’ of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Gr