Category: Poetry

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Katharine Lee Bates by Melinda M. Ponder

Melinda M. Ponder | Katharine Lee Bates | Katharine Lee Bates’s ‘America the Beautiful’ resonates for many people as the most patriotic and beloved American anthem. Her words remind us of why

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The Highest Apple by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn | The Highest Apple | An exploration of lesbian poetry.

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The Virago Book of Love Poetry by Wendy Mulford

Wendy Mulford | The Virago Book of Love Poetry | For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this

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Journey by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | Journey | …From the beginning, her poetry has expressed a deeply personal world where the lesbian collective consciousness sings and howls. Often Courtot’s po

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The Drowned Girl Now Rises by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | The Drowned Girl Now Rises | ‘This creative project, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, contains original poetry, pr

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The Woman Moving Through the Dark by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | The Woman Moving Through the Dark | Poetry by Courtot. Books are scarce, but mention is made in Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebo

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Tribes by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | Tribes | …Tribe, published in 1977, offers eleven poems that integrate hard daily truths as they link emotions with the natural world. Like most of Courtot’s

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Tribe by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | Tribe | …Tribe, published in 1977, offers eleven poems that integrate hard daily truths as they link emotions with the natural world. Like most of Courtot’s

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The Bird Escapes by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | The Bird Escapes | This collection of Martha Courtot’s poetry was published posthumously by her friends and family.

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From a Mobile Home by Nuala Archer

Nuala Archer | From a Mobile Home | “In From a Mobile Home, Nuala Archer is migrant, immigrant, wanderer poet. In these poems, we move between Oklahoma, Ireland, Swilly and Sewanee, Muns