Queer+ Poetry Resources
It would be impossible for me to list all of the Queer+ poetry books and authors here so I won’t even try. However, I’d love to direct you to some great Queer+ lit resources and collections to get you started. I hope you’ll buy, read, teach, and support Queer+ poets! And if you have Queer+ literary suggestions, please do get in touch. Thank you!
Queer+ Literary online resources
All Up In Your Ears: A Celebration of Queer Voices poetry podcast.
Anomaly #25 :: GLITTERBRAIN - a collection of work by neurodiverse, queer, people of color curated by Sarah Clark.
Capturing Fire - International Queer Spoken Word Slam
Foglifter - LGBTQ+ journal and press.
Lambda Literary - They hold a week-long LGBTQ+ writers’ retreat and an LGBTQ+ literary festival. They have yearly awards for LGBTQ+ books across genre and an extensive resource list, including a list of LGBTQ+ publishers.
LGBTQ Poetry curated by The Academy of American Poets.
LGBTQ Pride poems curated by The Poetry Foundation.
New Poetry by Queer Indigenous Women - curated by Natalie Diaz.
Pink Door Writing Retreat is a space exclusively for women, trans, feminine, MoC, and non-binary writers of color.
Poems to read at Gay and Lesbian weddings, curated by Andrea Lawlor for Poetry Off the Shelf.
Publishing Triangle - LGBT+ book awards, publishing lists, and resources.
Queer Checkins - curated by Franny Choi, 12 queer Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic poets check in and give us glimpses of queer life.
Queer Love Poems curated by The Poetry Foundation.
Sister Spit - feminist, queer, and trans* readings (often traveling across the country).
The Wanderer - publishing the work of artists whose lens is not the straight, white, cis-male one that dominates our culture.
Queer+ Anthologies and/or Collections (print)
Nepantla: Queer Poets of Color, edited by Christopher Soto (Nightboat Books, 2018).
Reading Queer: Poetry In A Time of Chaos, edited by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton (Anhinga Press, 2018).
Stoked Words: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from the Capturing Fire Slam and Summit, edited by Regie Cabico (2018).
Prime: Poetry & Conversation is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ongoing conversation in the black, queer literary community. Prime features poems by and dialogue between poets Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, Phillip B. Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson. Jericho Brown provides the introduction. (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015).
The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South, edited by Douglas Ray (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015).
Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014).
Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry, edited by Regie Cabico and Brittany Fonte (Lowbrow Press, 2013).
Collective Brightness: LGBTQIA Poets on Faith, Religion, and Spirituality, edited by Kevin Simmonds (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011).
MARIPOSAS: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (English and Spanish), edited by Emanuel Xavier (Floricanto Press, 2008).
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave, edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou, (St. Martin's Press, 2000)
The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading, edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents, 1995).
Gay and Lesbian Poetry In Our Time: An Anthology, edited by Carl Morse and Joan Larkin (St. Martin’s Press, 1988).
Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology, edited by Will Roscoe (St. Martin’s Press, 1988).
