Super gay poems: LGBTQIA+ poetry after Stonewall

Introduction

Frank O'Hara, Homosexuality (1954 / 1970)

Judy Grahn, Carol, in the park, chewing on straws (1970)

James Schuyler, We Are Leaves (1972)

Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems, XIII (1976)

James Merrill, Manos Karastefanis (1976)

Audre Lorde, Walking Our Boundaries (1978)

Thom Gunn, Bally Power Play (1982)

James L. White, The First Time (1982)

Marilyn Hacker, Nights of 1962: The River Merchant's Wife (1986 / 1990)

Paul Monette, The Worrying (1988)

U. A. Fanthorpe, 7301 (1987)

Jackie Kay, Mummy and Donor and Deirdre (1991)

Essex Hemphill, Object Lessons (1992)

Ruth Vanita, Mermaid (1994)

Samuel Ace (Linda Smukler), Suits and Ties (1994)

Melvin Dixon, The Falling Sky (1992 / 1995)

Chrystos, Jump Back in Me Now (1995)

John Ashbery, The Underwriters (2000)

Cherry Smith, In the South That Winter (2001)

Trish Salah, notes toward dropping out (2002)

bill bissett, looking out now aftr a recent brek up (2005)

May Swenson, Found in Diary Dated May 29, 1973 (2000 / 2003)

Carl Phillips, Riding Westward (2006)

Kei Miller, The Broken (I) (2007)

Angie Estes, Takeoff (2007)

Mark Doty, Apparition (2008)

Richard Howard, What the Future Has in Store (2009)

Erín Moure, Evocation (2009)

Jee Leong Koh, Glass Orgasm

Marisa Crawford, Deidre (2010)

D. A. Powell, Lessons in Woodworking (2012)

Frank Bidart, Queer

CA Conrad, Unknown Duration of Fear / A Human Being Realizes They Are Alone for the First Time in 12 Hours (2014)

Jericho Brown, Heart Condition (2014)

Kay Ryan, The First of Never (2015)

Hera Lindsay Bird, Bisexuality (2016)

Sophie Robinson, Cancer, Leo Rising (2016)

Trace Peterson, The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (2016 / 2024)

Anthony Vahni Capildeo, After Catullus 5 (2016 / 2018)

Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Dis Pure Diss (2017)

Billy-Ray Belcourt, Sexual History (2017)

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, She Ties My Bow Tie (2017)

Stephanie Chan, You Throw a Party and Everyone You Have Ever Been Attracted To Is There (2019)

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, la cortadura

Logan February, Prayer of the Slut (2020)

Rajiv Mohabir, Indo-Queer I (2021)

Tonee Moll, Poly Beach House (2022)

Danez Smith, Waiting for You to Die So I Can Be Myself (2022)

Essa May Ranapiri, She-Viper with Tales Outstretched (2022)

Chen Chen, Summer (2023)

The Cyborg Jillian Weise, So Your GF Wants to Come Out as Bi and Polyamorous to Her Very Conservative Family (2024).