Gay/Queer Poetry

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Crush
Crush 4.34 avg rating — 41,092 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,641 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara 4.34 avg rating — 5,635 ratings
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
by: Sappho
4.43 avg rating — 20,759 ratings
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Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence 4.07 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde 4.43 avg rating — 3,763 ratings
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The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984 4.24 avg rating — 3,143 ratings
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds 4.18 avg rating — 47,844 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 105,232 ratings
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Don't Call Us Dead
Don't Call Us Dead 4.46 avg rating — 12,105 ratings
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Complete Works
Complete Works 4.40 avg rating — 9,351 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,398 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.19 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.15 avg rating — 3,167 ratings
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The Complete Poems 1927-1979
The Complete Poems 1927-1979 4.20 avg rating — 12,966 ratings
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The Dream of a Common Language
The Dream of a Common Language 4.32 avg rating — 6,772 ratings
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Roots and Branches: Poetry
Roots and Branches: Poetry 4.38 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Masculine Beauty: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Poetry Of Same-Sex Affection
Masculine Beauty: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Poetry Of Same-Sex Affection 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.18 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise 4.25 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
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Sonnets to a Young Man
Sonnets to a Young Man 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Poems of Wilfred Owen
The Poems of Wilfred Owen 4.30 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.31 avg rating — 8,297 ratings
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Ruthless. Heartless! Loveless.
Ruthless. Heartless! Loveless. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Tongues of Fire
Tongues of Fire 4.19 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Black Under
Black Under 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Lesbian Juices: Volume I
Lesbian Juices: Volume I
by: Leni King
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems
Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Collected Poems and Letters from America with Photographs and a New Introduction
Collected Poems and Letters from America with Photographs and a New Introduction 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Sappho
The Complete Poems of Sappho
by: Sappho
4.17 avg rating — 10,971 ratings
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Millay
Millay 4.35 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.17 avg rating — 15,023 ratings
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Movement in Black
Movement in Black 4.54 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Please
Please 4.38 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns 4.46 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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Burnings
Burnings 4.34 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The New Testament
The New Testament 4.24 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
New and Selected Poems, Volume One 4.54 avg rating — 14,326 ratings
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The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader 4.49 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Selected Poems of H.D.
Selected Poems of H.D.
by: H.D.
4.03 avg rating — 476 ratings
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My Body: New and Selected Poems
My Body: New and Selected Poems 4.29 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul
by: Ryka Aoki
4.34 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Pansy
Pansy 4.51 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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Waiting for Life
Waiting for Life 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Mute
Mute 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Take Me With You
Take Me With You 3.93 avg rating — 4,952 ratings
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Chelsea Boy
Chelsea Boy 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 53,918 ratings
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When the Only Light Is Fire
When the Only Light Is Fire 4.31 avg rating — 286 ratings
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A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses
A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses 4.08 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas 3.98 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Mysterious Acts by My People
Mysterious Acts by My People 4.45 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Lunch Poems
Lunch Poems 4.15 avg rating — 13,155 ratings
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[insert] boy
[insert] boy 4.54 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast 4.56 avg rating — 68 ratings
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My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems
My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems 4.46 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Ode to Boy: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature, Volume One: From Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century
Ode to Boy: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature, Volume One: From Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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I Want to Make You Safe
I Want to Make You Safe
by: Amy King
4.30 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Portrait of the Alcoholic
Portrait of the Alcoholic 4.42 avg rating — 802 ratings
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Wanting in Arabic
Wanting in Arabic 4.23 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry
Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry
A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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In Full Velvet
In Full Velvet 4.23 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Adrienne Issue 04: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women
Adrienne Issue 04: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Assaracus Issue 02: A Journal of Gay Poetry
Assaracus Issue 02: A Journal of Gay Poetry 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Don't Go Back to Sleep
Don't Go Back to Sleep 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings
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My Life as Adam
My Life as Adam 4.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Selected Writings
Selected Writings 3.87 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Gay Love Poetry
Gay Love Poetry 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Boy with Thorn
Boy with Thorn 4.17 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Atlantis
Atlantis
by: Mark Doty
4.22 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Say Goodnight
Say Goodnight 4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father
Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father 4.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Fag Hag A Scandalous Chapbook of Fabulously-Codependent Poetry
Fag Hag A Scandalous Chapbook of Fabulously-Codependent Poetry 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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He Do The Gay Man In Different Voices
He Do The Gay Man In Different Voices 3.97 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The lake has no saint
The lake has no saint 4.11 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New 4.30 avg rating — 557 ratings
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Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time 4.24 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Love Poems
Love Poems 4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Muse of the Violets: Poems
The Muse of the Violets: Poems 4.25 avg rating — 64 ratings
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O Beautiful for Spacious Skies
O Beautiful for Spacious Skies 2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry
The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry 4.30 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Crossfire
Crossfire 4.35 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Rave: Poems, 1975-1999
Rave: Poems, 1975-1999 4.16 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Consensual Genocide
Consensual Genocide 4.34 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993
The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993 3.81 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Butch Geography
Butch Geography 4.26 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Weaklings
The Weaklings 4.14 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Poems of the Black Object
Poems of the Black Object 4.40 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Sappho's Boat: Poems
Sappho's Boat: Poems 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Madness Vase
The Madness Vase 4.48 avg rating — 2,921 ratings
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What the Body Told
What the Body Told 4.02 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Mend this Heart: The First Year
Mend this Heart: The First Year really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Love and Other Misunderstandings
Love and Other Misunderstandings 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Turquoise Sky
A Turquoise Sky 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Iridescent Soliloquy
Iridescent Soliloquy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Letters of Love
Letters of Love it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Polari
Polari 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Anna
Anna 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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