More LGBTQ poets to get to know, Part I

Here is the first of three catch-up installments in my ongoing 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). These poems were featured in the spring; the next two installments will cover summer poems. Enjoy!

Good Grief                                                    by KB Brookins 

in our chant of the creation of the world     by leilani portillo

The Viole(n)t Cat                                        by Dan Taulapapa McMullin

Hinemoana                                                  by Essa May Ranapiri

Voyages V                                                    by Hart Crane

Of a Certain Friendship                                by Elsa Gidlow

Klangfarbenmelodie                                    by Manuel Arturo Abreu

Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'                            by Chase Berggrun

sky hammer                                                by Julian Talamantez Brolaski

A Shropshire Lad, XXX                            by A.E. Housman