In this field of thistle, I am the improbable … “ Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown” by Saeed Jones J., Leaving and Coming Back” by Marilyn Hacker Still as a scar through the screen’s glow … “ Ekphrasis on My Rapist’s Wedding Dress” by torrin a. “ It Is Important To Be Something” by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza “ Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God” by Meg Dayīatter my heart, trangender’d god, for yours … In the invitation, I tell them for the seventeenth time … “ I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party” by Chen Chen “ Rocket Fantastic ” by Gabrielle Calvocoressiīieng tran is a unique kinde off organe … Lie to yourself about this and you will … " Dear Melissa: " by TC TolbertĪ curve billed thrasher / is cleaning it's beak on the ground … Kind height, kind in the right stomach with a little sudden mill … What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why … Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me … I won't be forgiven / for what I've made / of myself I was alone in a dyke bar we'd traversed before He would not stay for me, and who can wonder … “ He would not stay for me, and who can wonder” by A. " The Man with Night Sweats" by Thom Gunn What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman … “ A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg " Things Haunt" by Joshua Jennifer EspinozaĬalifornia is a desert and I am a woman inside it You weren’t well or really ill yet either … " elegy for kari edwards" by Julian Talamantez Brolaskiĭamesirs of fishairs / princes reginae / I don't need this botheration … I wish you (my mother once told me-mother of my child- … Toklasĭear dainty delicious darling, dear / sweet selected of my soul … Gertrude Stein's Two Love Notes to Alice B. Poet Laureate, reads a poem and describes an surprise experience that occurred while reading the funnies in bed with her partner, Carol. Video: Kay Ryan, the first out lesbian U.S. Is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne. It is the lingering emblem of the Heaven I once dreamed, and though if this is taken, I shall remain alone.there is a darker spirit will not disown its child …įrank O'Hara Reads "Having a Coke with You" My love for you is indestructible …Īllen Ginsberg Sings "A Western Ballad" on the roof his apartment in the East Village.Įmily Dickinson's Letter to Susan Huntington Dickinson Corral, Michael Klein, Joan Larkin, and Carl Phillips.įorgive me my deafness now for your name on others' lips: …ĭear comrade, I think of you very often. Poets on Poets featuring Cyrus Cassells, Eduardo C. In the first place-I wanted him and said so. “ And Now Upon My Head the Crown” by Phillip B. Instead, let it be the echo to every footstep. “ Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds” by Ocean Vuong “ Dear Melissa: ” by TC TolbertĪ curve billed thrasher / is cleaning it's beak on the ground. Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers. We tell beginnings: for the flesh and the answer. Saw you walking barefoot / taking a long look / at the new moon's eyelid. “ Tonight No Poetry Will Serve” by Adrienne Rich Heaven is the certainty that you will be avenged. The King is Dead, Long Live the King” by Julian Randall “ No One Speaks fo How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits” by Xandria Phillips Something seems to have gnawed that walnut leaf. “ Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree” by D.
Going abruptly into a starry night / It is ignorance we blink from. Kingĭriving the highway from Atlanta to Phoenix.Īnd if / I were to say // I love you and / I do love you. “ The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one” by June Jordan I won't be forgiven / for what I've made / of myself. “ Things Haunt” by Joshua Jennifer EspinozaĬalifornia is a desert and I am a woman inside it. For more essays, video, and ephemera, check out our Pride Month roundup. Explore the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio.