A selection of poems by LGBTQIA+ writers celebrating queer joy, experience, and love.
Ginsberg, Allen. Reality Sandwiches. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.
For Robert Duncan
Gunn, Thom. "Wrestling." Jack Straw's Castle. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.
Rich, Adrienne. Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.
Miller, Jane. Many Junipers, Heartbeats. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press, 1980.
Broumas, Olga. Caritas. Eugene: Jackrabbit Press, 1976.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987.
Doty, Mark. Atlantis. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.
González, Rigoberto. Other Fugitives and Other Strangers. Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, 2006.
Hacker, Marilyn. Squares and Courtyards. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Differs from published version.
Siken, Richard. Crush. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
Giovanni, Nikki. Acolytes. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Campo, Rafael. The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997.
Alarcón, Francisco X. Of Dark Love / De amor oscuro. Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press, 1992.
Rickel, Boyer. Remanence. West Lafayette: Free Verse Editions, 2008.
Ali, Kazim. The Far Mosque. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2005.
Tolbert, TC. Territories of Folding. Tucson, AZ: Kore Press, 2011.
Healy, Eloise Klein. A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2013.
From a work in progress titled I Met a Man. Differs from published version.
Ace, Samuel. "I met a man." Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Ed. TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books, 2013.
Corral, Eduardo C. Slow Lightning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
Uncollected.
CAConrad. Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness. Seattle and New York: Wave Books, 2014.
Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2020.
Differs from published version.
Nguyen, Hieu Minh. Not Here. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2018.
Teare, Brian. "After a Long Illness." New England Review, vol. 37, no. 2, 2016, pp. 27-30.
Differs slightly from published version.
Vuong, Ocean. Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016.
Charles, Jos. Safe Space. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2016.
Differs slightly from published version.
Pico, Tommy. Junk. Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2018, pp. 6-7.
Differs slightly from published version.
Sax, Sam. Pig. New York: Scribner, 2023.
Legaspi, Joseph O. Threshold. CavanKerry Press, 2017.
Differs from published version.
Sabatini Sloan, Aisha. Borealis. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2021, pp. 1-12.
Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Myles, Eileen. a "Working Life." New York: Grove Press, 2023.
