Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Some LGBTQ poets to get to know, Part I

About a year ago, I began a periodic series of postings here spotlighting LGBTQ poets whose work the American Academy of Poetry has featured via its Poem-a-Day newsletter (as well as a smattering of straight poets who have addressed such themes in their work). I've fallen seriously behind on that project, so here are two catch-up compilations featuring those poems, which were disseminated between December 2021 and now. Enjoy!


(Note: We read his second poetry collection, Don't Call Us Dead, back in 2019.)

Root Systems                                     by Kay Ulanday Barrett

Vaccinated                                         by Jericho Brown

Farewell                                             by Federico Garcia Lorca

Having a Fight with You                   by Patrick Phillips

Euler's Equation                                by Bino A. Realuyo

February                                            by Tamiko Beyer

As I Grew Older                                by Langston Hughes

Shadow                                              by Bruce Nugent

Drift                                                  by Alicia Mountain


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