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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Black Girl, Call Home
Mans (Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels) reframes the classic bildungsroman as a book-length poem sequence in this bold take on race, gender, and sexuality. -- Publishers Weekly
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A "working Life"
Capturing the contrasts and paradoxes of human experience, these meditations bring a humorous and philosophical lens to some of life's most pressing subjects. - Publishers Weekly
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God Themselves
Religion, love, the risks of the female body, and growing up as a queer Black woman in the South are central themes in spoken word poet Nichelle's debut. - Publishers Weekly
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Then the War
This remarkable compendium is a testament to the spirit of Phillips's work. - Publishers Weekly
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Queer Nature
This significant anthology features three centuries' worth of more than 200 LGBTQ poets' writing on the natural world. - Publishers Weekly
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Ask the Brindled
Wedding the history of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi with contemporary experiences of queer love and queer grief, Revilla writes toward sovereignty: linguistic, erotic, civic. - publisher's copy
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Dereliction
Rucker's unusual debut is stubbornly her own, its idiosyncratic diction steeped in the supernatural. - Publishers Weekly
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Antes que isla es volcán: poemas
The emboldening tour de force from Rivera (Poems for the Nation) illuminates tyranny in his native Puerto Rico and reimagines a decolonized future. - Publishers Weekly
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Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
An immense tenderness underlies Salazar's standout first collection. The poems probe the ever-presence of history, family, place, religion, and grief insisting on multidimensionality and the complicated ways the aforementioned entwine with us, for better and worse. - Library Journal
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Trace Evidence
In this exquisite and affecting collection, Shanahan (Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing) explores longing and alienation in queer and mixed-race contexts. - Publishers Weekly
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