Some great resources for discovering more authors are: this list of LBT+ Women & Non-Binary Contemporary Poets (and if you are looking for other queer women poets, I can’t recommend Leah Lakshmi-Piepzna Samarasinha highly enough!), looking at the Lambda Literary Awards winner (and nominees) for the Lesbian Poetry category, and the Goodreads list of Best Lesbian Poetry.So, if your female and lesbian porn is in your browser history, does that mean you're actually attracted to females and want to try a same-sex hook-up?
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This, of course, does not begin to scratch the surface in highlighting amazing lesbian poetry! Feel free to comment with of your favorites that I missed. I learned to find anyone in the sumptuous, To say they all looked the same to me, beautiful & I tried to wake the host girl to ask her, but she was I never knew exactly where the bathroom was.
Speckled with confetti, their faces blanched by the Someone’s father seemed always to be shaving.Īround the sleeping bodies, their long hair No one remembered to leave a light on in the hall. The living room floor, my face pressed into aĪll night I woke to rain on the strangers’ windows. Sleeping bags like straitjackets spread out on I loved them with my eyes closed, my back turned. It is divided into two sections: “When I Was Straight” and “After.” If you’re looking for coming out poetry, the tiny book When I Was Straightby Julie Marie Wade would be up your alley. May you never take an action that cannot be forgotten. May you never make a mistake that cannot be corrected. The Memorial Foundation for the Murdered Jews of Europeĭegesch manufactured gas pellets: Zyklon B. Is the world’s largest maker of specialty chemicals. I tell my wife, It is perfect for the kitchen.ĭegesch, a company affiliated with Degussa, I want a new German one-small, sleek, stylish. We open all the windows,Ĭall the utility company. I say, You are already two weeks behind schedule.įive days after we move in, I wake up sick. I am not old enough to be a ma’am, but I don’t correct them. The painters call before we move into the new house. Ma’am, they say. Enszer’s collection Sisterhood left me completely shaken with this poem: Of course, lesbian poetry isn’t just a thing of the past. Speak earth and bless me with what is richestĪ contemporary of Lorde’s who isn’t as well known is Pat Parker, who was another black lesbian feminist poet writing in the ’70s. I can’t detail the entire history of lesbian poetry here, so I will skip to one of the biggest names: Audre Lorde, who has written incredible things about race, sexuality, and sexism, and casually includes lines like “And there is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love” ( Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power). I taste with endless kisses and taste again. The thorns between us sting like love’s pain. I break wild roses, scatter them over her. I’m including one from her later collection, Sapphic Songs: got its first book of lesbian poetry: On A Grey Thread by Elsa Gidlow. ( The Muse of the Violets: Poems by Renée Vivien) Swooning, refusing itself the kisses of your lips. In your white voluptuousness my desire rests, The curves of your shoulders, your neck, your unappeased breasts.
I follow slowly the graceful contours of your hips, How curious, complex, the touch, this subtle art–Īs the dream of fragrance, the miracle of sound. The petal flesh beneath the robe they part. My ingenious fingers wait when they have found Trembling, provocative, the line of your haunches. Veiled like a woman, evoking another time, The trees have kept some lingering sun in their branches, When her father found out about this, he bought up the remaining stock of the title and had them burned.Ī few years later, Renée Vivien (a lover of Barney’s) wrote and published her own lesbian poetry, chock-full of references to Sappho’s poems and not exactly subtextual in their content: In 1900 in France, Natalie Clifford Barney published Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (Translated: Some Portrait-Sonnets of Women), a book of lesbian love poetry. (Translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung in Women Poets of China) We paint each other’s beautiful eyebrows. Then you sing `Remembering South of the River’ Your jade and coral girdle ornaments chimeĪnd I become speechless and forget every word. Among other topics, she wrote love poetry for courtesans, including this one: In the 1800s, Wu Tsao was a celebrated poet. Sappho is the foundation of queer women literature, including giving us the words lesbian and sapphic, but lesbian poetry books have in general been some of the first explicitly lesbian books published through time. (Both translated by Anne Carson in If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho) For when I look at you, even a moment, no speakingīut all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty.