LGBTQ+ Poets
A list of recent poetry by LGBTQ+ poets selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Created May 2023)
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Apocrifa
Considers the cornerstones of romance—doubt, surrender, grief, resolution—through poems about hunger, exploration, and forbidden fruit. - Publishers Weekly
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A Queen in Bucks County
This startling collection successfully highlights the precarious spaces of social exchange in a largely uncompassionate world. - Publishers Weekly
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A Dead Name That Learned How to Live
Weaves poems, family photographs, & self-portraits to share a journey of survival & living in the American south. - publisher's copy
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Miss Settl
These poems lampoon rigged games of common sense, syntax, and citizenship to expose the mechanics of what Americans have become and what they might be freed into after the end of capitalism and gender, and race, and money, and property. - publisher's copy
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A Shiver in the Leaves
Brutality and tenderness intertwine in this collection, which illuminates the inner life of a young gay Black man navigating desire, depression, family, and faith. - The New Yorker
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Gossypiin
A Black feminist hypertext that registers the feeling of an experience of the world in which the self is an unstable plurality continuously unmade. - publisher's copy
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Song of My Softening
A profound and intersectional text, Song of My Softening is a queer, fat, love song of the interior. - publisher's copy
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Alive at the End of the World
Balancing elegy with gallows humor, this penetrating collection shows Jones at his poetic best. - Publishers Weekly
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Punks
Divided into seven sections that span the writer's career, this brilliant, expansive collection offers panoramic insight into Keene's work. - Publishers Weekly
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Glory Hole
A ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet. - publisher's copy
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