Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Some LGBTQ+ Poetry to Enjoy, Part 1

Some LGBTQ+ poetry to enjoy, Part 1 The American Academy of Poetry's Poem-a-Day newsletter has featured even more LGBTQ+ poetry than usual (not all by LGBTQ+ poets, I should note) so far this winter, so I'm playing catchup here. These poems were disseminated in November and December; the post immediately below this one will bring us up to date. Enjoy!

Madagascar [Opus 104] by Witter Bynner

To My Daughter's Dead Name by Lance Larson

Egg Tooth by Benjamin Garcia

Jessica McClure, After the Well by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

Dock Rats by Marianne Moore

Gender Euphoria and the Superbloom by Jennifer Huang

The Sign as You Leave the Artists' Colony Says "The New World" by Aliki Barnstone

Le Jardin des Tuileries by Oscar Wilde

Megaloceros by J. Bailey Hutchison

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