SDiane Bogus | Dyke Hands and Sutras Erotic Lyric | ‘Dyke Hands & Sutras Erotic & Lyric,’ by SDiane Bogus, is an outstanding work from this prolific African-American lesbian writer. A collection of poem
Kieran York; Beth Mitchum | Blushing Aspen | Blushing Aspen Poetry by Kieran York The aspen tree sends out its branches grown by days and years. Limbs are the expandable balance of life. Each b
Gertrude Stein; Rebecca Mark | Lifting Belly | Often considered the central erotic work of Stein’s middle period, this love poem written to her longtime companion, Alice B. Toklas, reveals a vulner
Chocolate Waters | To the Man Reporter from the Denver Post | With a scathing turn-about, Ms Waters can fire verse like Amazone arrows into male myths. This she did most effectively in ‘To a Man Reporter from the
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’
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