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You could simply call this the most important collection of gay and lesbian poetry yet published. It is. -- Bay Area Reporter
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To The Bone by Dorothy Allison
When I Drink I Become The Joy Of Faggots by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 1 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 2 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 3 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 4 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 5 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 6 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 7 by Dorothy Allison
Monologue Of A Dying Beast: A Lover's Complaint by Mark Ameen
Sonnet No. 21 by Mark Ameen
Sonnet No. 22 by Mark Ameen
Interface by Gloria Anzaldua
We Call Them Greasers by Gloria Anzaldua
Commentary, Sels. by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Rape Poem by Tommi Avicolli
Guilt, Desire And Love by James Baldwin
A Lover's Question by James Baldwin
The Hot Dog Poem by Jane Ellen Barnes
How To Dress Like A Femmy Dyke by Jane Ellen Barnes
How To Dress Like A Scary Dyke by Jane Ellen Barnes
The Blueberry Man by David Bergman
Confessional by Frank Bidart
The Sacrifice by Frank Bidart
The Most Beautiful Woman At My Highschool Reunion by Ellen Marie Bissert
Cheers, Cheers For Old Cha Cha Ass by Walta Borawski
English Was Only A Secong Language by Walta Borawski
Invisible History by Walta Borawski
Her Name Is Helen by Beth Brant
The Coming Of The Beloved: Wondrous The Merge by James Richard Broughton
She Loves by Olga Broumas
Christmas With The Holy Family by Susan Cavin
Look Away Child by Susan Cavin
Why Are Daddies So Mean by Jane Chambers
The Wings Of A Wild Goose by Chrystos [pseud.]
Of Althea And Flaxie by Cheryl Clarke
The Older American by Cheryl Clarke
Palm Leaf Of Mary Magdalene by Cheryl Clarke
After Touch by Jan Clausen
Being Aware by Dennis Cooper
My Past by Dennis Cooper
Older Men by Alfred Dewitt Corn
A Gay Psalm From Fort Valley by Louis Crew
De Ambiente by Tatiana De La Tierra
The Sisters by Alexis De Veaux
An Eye For An Eye by C. M. Donald
I Expect You Think This Huge Dark Coat by C. M. Donald
My Mother Would Be A Falconress by Robert Duncan
Curing Homosexuality by Jim Everhard
Unwanted by Edward Field
World War Ii by Edward Field
Assumption About The Harlem Bronwn Baby by Salih Michael Fisher
Deadly Weapon by Beatrix Gates
Howl; For Carl Solomon by Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish: Part 4 by Allen Ginsberg
The Lion For Real by Allen Ginsberg
Please Master by Allen Ginsberg
My Chakubuku Mama by Jewelle Gomez
Just How Crazy Brenda Is by Melinda Goodman
Wedding Reception by Melinda Goodman
Long Lines: Youth And Age by Paul Goodman
Making Love, Iii (2) by Paul Goodman
A Funeral Plainsong From A Younger Woman To An Older Woman by Judy Grahn
A History Of Lesbianism by Judy Grahn
Oh God Forbid by Judy Grahn
Talkers In A Dream Doorway by Judy Grahn
Woman Is Talking To Death by Judy Grahn
An Answer To A Man's Question, '.. About Women's Liberation' by Susan Griffin
I Wake Thinking Of Myself As A Man by Susan Griffin
The Song Of The Woman With Her Parts Coming Out by Susan Griffin
Waiting For Truth by Susan Griffin
As Expected by Thomson William Gunn
The Cherry Tree by Thomson William Gunn
Courage, A Tale by Thomson William Gunn
Lament by Thomson William Gunn
1974 by Marilyn Hacker
Fifteen To Eighteen by Marilyn Hacker
Three Sonnets For Iva by Marilyn Hacker
The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window by Joy Harjo
The Grace Of Animals by Richard Harteis
Star Trek Iii by Richard Harteis
Cordon Negro by Essex Hemphill
Family Jewels by Essex Hemphill
Isn't It Funny? by Essex Hemphill
To Some Supposed Brothers by Essex Hemphill
Dino Campana And His Servitors, 1932 by Robert Herrick
The Going Rate Is by Robert Herrick
How To Find Love In An Instant by Robert Herrick
Stud by Robert Herrick
March, In Academic Festival Overtures, Sels. by Daryl Hine
Again For Hephaistos, The Last Time by Richard Howard
Cafe: 3 A.m. by James Langston Hughes
Harlem by James Langston Hughes
Stars by James Langston Hughes
Today by James Langston Hughes
Poem About My Rights by June Jordan
The Snow by June Jordan
Winkte by Maurice Kenny
Death Camp by Irena Klepfisz
Monkey Ii by Irena Klepfisz
Up by Bill Kushner
Clifton by Joan Larkin
Rape by Joan Larkin
Rhyme Of My Inheritance by Joan Larkin
How To Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell
Love Poem by Audre Lorde
Outlines by Audre Lorde
Political Relations by Audre Lorde
Power by Audre Lorde
Letters From A Married Man, Sels. by Donald Northrop Mager
Christmas 1962 by Paul Mariah
Quarry - Rock; A Reality Poem In The Tradition Of Genet by Paul Mariah
No. 106 by William Archibald, Jr. Mcgirt
Grace by William Meredith
Tree Marriage by William Meredith
Days Of 1941 And '44 by James Ingram Merrill
Up And Down: 1. Snow King Chair Lift by James Ingram Merrill
Up And Down: 2. The Emerald by James Ingram Merrill
The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions, Sels. by Larry Mitchell
First Time: 1950 by Honor Moore
Memoir; For J.j. Mitchell, Dead Of Aids 4/26/86 by Honor Moore
Feed The Mexican Back Into Her by Cherrie Moraga
For You, Mama by Cherrie Moraga
The Hallowing Of Hell, Sels. by Robin Morgan
On The Watergate Women by Robin Morgan
Dream Of The Artfairy by Carl Morse
Fairy Straighttalk by Carl Morse
Scenes Of Childhood by Carl Morse
A Woman Like Me by Eileen Myles
The Travels Of Gulliver, Sels. by Suniti Namjoshi
I'm Not A Man by Harold Norse
We Bumped Off Your Friend The Poet by Harold Norse
You Must Have Been A Sensational Baby by Harold Norse
Having A Coke With You by Frank O'hara
Ode To Joy by Frank O'hara
Ode: Salute To The French Negro Poets by Frank O'hara
Lepers Cry by Peter Orlovsky
Some One Liked Me When I Was Twelve by Peter Orlovsky
Metaphor As Illness by Charles Ortleb
Militerotics by Charles Ortleb
On Finding Out That The One ... Was Murdered The Next Day by Charles Ortleb
Some Boys by Charles Ortleb
My Brother by Patricia Parker
Prologue by Patricia Parker
Where Will You Be? by Patricia Parker
Surgery by Kenneth Pitchford
A Tardy Epithalamium For E. And N. by Ralph Pomeroy
The Child Taken From The Mother by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Waulking Song: Two by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Partial Luetic History Of An Individual At Risk by J. M. Regan
Twenty-one Love Poems: 1 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Looking At Each Other by Muriel Rukeyser
The Speed Of Darkness by Muriel Rukeyser
St. Roach by Muriel Rukeyser
Then by Muriel Rukeyser
The Fairies Are Dancing All Over The World by Michael Rumaker
The Bridge Poem by Kate Rushin
Triple Trouble by Assotto Saint
Questionaire by Susan Saxe
An Alarming New Development by Ron Schreiber
The House Is Old by Ron Schreiber
Growing Dark by James Schuyler
The Payne Whitney Poems: Sleep by James Schuyler
Tom by James Schuyler
Pebescence At 39 by Vickie Sears
Exorcism Of The Straight / Man / Demon by Aaron Shurin
Women Who Cook by Anita Skeen
The Shower by Linda Smukler
The Dream by May Swenson
Four-word Lines by May Swenson
The Hair, Fr. Poet To Tiger by May Swenson
The Salt by May Swenson
The Sand by May Swenson
A Chinese Banquet by Kitty Tsui
Pants by Lisa Vice
Making Love To Myself by James L. White
My Mother by John Wieners
A Poem For Trapped Things by John Wieners
Life Story by Tennessee Williams
You And I by Tennessee Williams
Letters Come To Prison by Roosevelt Williamson
Visitation Rights by Heather Wishik
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
When I Drink I Become The Joy Of Faggots by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 1 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 2 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 3 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 4 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 5 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 6 by Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me: 7 by Dorothy Allison
Monologue Of A Dying Beast: A Lover's Complaint by Mark Ameen
Sonnet No. 21 by Mark Ameen
Sonnet No. 22 by Mark Ameen
Interface by Gloria Anzaldua
We Call Them Greasers by Gloria Anzaldua
Commentary, Sels. by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Rape Poem by Tommi Avicolli
Guilt, Desire And Love by James Baldwin
A Lover's Question by James Baldwin
The Hot Dog Poem by Jane Ellen Barnes
How To Dress Like A Femmy Dyke by Jane Ellen Barnes
How To Dress Like A Scary Dyke by Jane Ellen Barnes
The Blueberry Man by David Bergman
Confessional by Frank Bidart
The Sacrifice by Frank Bidart
The Most Beautiful Woman At My Highschool Reunion by Ellen Marie Bissert
Cheers, Cheers For Old Cha Cha Ass by Walta Borawski
English Was Only A Secong Language by Walta Borawski
Invisible History by Walta Borawski
Her Name Is Helen by Beth Brant
The Coming Of The Beloved: Wondrous The Merge by James Richard Broughton
She Loves by Olga Broumas
Christmas With The Holy Family by Susan Cavin
Look Away Child by Susan Cavin
Why Are Daddies So Mean by Jane Chambers
The Wings Of A Wild Goose by Chrystos [pseud.]
Of Althea And Flaxie by Cheryl Clarke
The Older American by Cheryl Clarke
Palm Leaf Of Mary Magdalene by Cheryl Clarke
After Touch by Jan Clausen
Being Aware by Dennis Cooper
My Past by Dennis Cooper
Older Men by Alfred Dewitt Corn
A Gay Psalm From Fort Valley by Louis Crew
De Ambiente by Tatiana De La Tierra
The Sisters by Alexis De Veaux
An Eye For An Eye by C. M. Donald
I Expect You Think This Huge Dark Coat by C. M. Donald
My Mother Would Be A Falconress by Robert Duncan
Curing Homosexuality by Jim Everhard
Unwanted by Edward Field
World War Ii by Edward Field
Assumption About The Harlem Bronwn Baby by Salih Michael Fisher
Deadly Weapon by Beatrix Gates
Howl; For Carl Solomon by Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish: Part 4 by Allen Ginsberg
The Lion For Real by Allen Ginsberg
Please Master by Allen Ginsberg
My Chakubuku Mama by Jewelle Gomez
Just How Crazy Brenda Is by Melinda Goodman
Wedding Reception by Melinda Goodman
Long Lines: Youth And Age by Paul Goodman
Making Love, Iii (2) by Paul Goodman
A Funeral Plainsong From A Younger Woman To An Older Woman by Judy Grahn
A History Of Lesbianism by Judy Grahn
Oh God Forbid by Judy Grahn
Talkers In A Dream Doorway by Judy Grahn
Woman Is Talking To Death by Judy Grahn
An Answer To A Man's Question, '.. About Women's Liberation' by Susan Griffin
I Wake Thinking Of Myself As A Man by Susan Griffin
The Song Of The Woman With Her Parts Coming Out by Susan Griffin
Waiting For Truth by Susan Griffin
As Expected by Thomson William Gunn
The Cherry Tree by Thomson William Gunn
Courage, A Tale by Thomson William Gunn
Lament by Thomson William Gunn
1974 by Marilyn Hacker
Fifteen To Eighteen by Marilyn Hacker
Three Sonnets For Iva by Marilyn Hacker
The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window by Joy Harjo
The Grace Of Animals by Richard Harteis
Star Trek Iii by Richard Harteis
Cordon Negro by Essex Hemphill
Family Jewels by Essex Hemphill
Isn't It Funny? by Essex Hemphill
To Some Supposed Brothers by Essex Hemphill
Dino Campana And His Servitors, 1932 by Robert Herrick
The Going Rate Is by Robert Herrick
How To Find Love In An Instant by Robert Herrick
Stud by Robert Herrick
March, In Academic Festival Overtures, Sels. by Daryl Hine
Again For Hephaistos, The Last Time by Richard Howard
Cafe: 3 A.m. by James Langston Hughes
Harlem by James Langston Hughes
Stars by James Langston Hughes
Today by James Langston Hughes
Poem About My Rights by June Jordan
The Snow by June Jordan
Winkte by Maurice Kenny
Death Camp by Irena Klepfisz
Monkey Ii by Irena Klepfisz
Up by Bill Kushner
Clifton by Joan Larkin
Rape by Joan Larkin
Rhyme Of My Inheritance by Joan Larkin
How To Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell
Love Poem by Audre Lorde
Outlines by Audre Lorde
Political Relations by Audre Lorde
Power by Audre Lorde
Letters From A Married Man, Sels. by Donald Northrop Mager
Christmas 1962 by Paul Mariah
Quarry - Rock; A Reality Poem In The Tradition Of Genet by Paul Mariah
No. 106 by William Archibald, Jr. Mcgirt
Grace by William Meredith
Tree Marriage by William Meredith
Days Of 1941 And '44 by James Ingram Merrill
Up And Down: 1. Snow King Chair Lift by James Ingram Merrill
Up And Down: 2. The Emerald by James Ingram Merrill
The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions, Sels. by Larry Mitchell
First Time: 1950 by Honor Moore
Memoir; For J.j. Mitchell, Dead Of Aids 4/26/86 by Honor Moore
Feed The Mexican Back Into Her by Cherrie Moraga
For You, Mama by Cherrie Moraga
The Hallowing Of Hell, Sels. by Robin Morgan
On The Watergate Women by Robin Morgan
Dream Of The Artfairy by Carl Morse
Fairy Straighttalk by Carl Morse
Scenes Of Childhood by Carl Morse
A Woman Like Me by Eileen Myles
The Travels Of Gulliver, Sels. by Suniti Namjoshi
I'm Not A Man by Harold Norse
We Bumped Off Your Friend The Poet by Harold Norse
You Must Have Been A Sensational Baby by Harold Norse
Having A Coke With You by Frank O'hara
Ode To Joy by Frank O'hara
Ode: Salute To The French Negro Poets by Frank O'hara
Lepers Cry by Peter Orlovsky
Some One Liked Me When I Was Twelve by Peter Orlovsky
Metaphor As Illness by Charles Ortleb
Militerotics by Charles Ortleb
On Finding Out That The One ... Was Murdered The Next Day by Charles Ortleb
Some Boys by Charles Ortleb
My Brother by Patricia Parker
Prologue by Patricia Parker
Where Will You Be? by Patricia Parker
Surgery by Kenneth Pitchford
A Tardy Epithalamium For E. And N. by Ralph Pomeroy
The Child Taken From The Mother by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Waulking Song: Two by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Partial Luetic History Of An Individual At Risk by J. M. Regan
Twenty-one Love Poems: 1 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Looking At Each Other by Muriel Rukeyser
The Speed Of Darkness by Muriel Rukeyser
St. Roach by Muriel Rukeyser
Then by Muriel Rukeyser
The Fairies Are Dancing All Over The World by Michael Rumaker
The Bridge Poem by Kate Rushin
Triple Trouble by Assotto Saint
Questionaire by Susan Saxe
An Alarming New Development by Ron Schreiber
The House Is Old by Ron Schreiber
Growing Dark by James Schuyler
The Payne Whitney Poems: Sleep by James Schuyler
Tom by James Schuyler
Pebescence At 39 by Vickie Sears
Exorcism Of The Straight / Man / Demon by Aaron Shurin
Women Who Cook by Anita Skeen
The Shower by Linda Smukler
The Dream by May Swenson
Four-word Lines by May Swenson
The Hair, Fr. Poet To Tiger by May Swenson
The Salt by May Swenson
The Sand by May Swenson
A Chinese Banquet by Kitty Tsui
Pants by Lisa Vice
Making Love To Myself by James L. White
My Mother by John Wieners
A Poem For Trapped Things by John Wieners
Life Story by Tennessee Williams
You And I by Tennessee Williams
Letters Come To Prison by Roosevelt Williamson
Visitation Rights by Heather Wishik
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
