This is a list—Anglophone-centric, unfortunately—of current lesbian and bi+ women poets (trans & cis) who have published books of poetry. *Please let me know if you would like to be added or removed.*
*For a catalogue of non-cis poets, including trans men and non-binary people, visit Bogi Takács’s list on GoodReads.
- Etel Adnan
- Surge (Nightboat Books)
- Time, tr. Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books)
- Saida Agostini
- let the dead in (Alan Squire Publishing)
- Hala Alyan
- Hijra (Southern Illinois University Press)
- The Twenty-Ninth Year (Mariner Books)
- Atrium (Three Rooms Press)
- Patience Agbabi
- R.A.W. (Gecko Press)
- Transformatrix (Canongate Books)
- Bloodshot Monochrome (Canongate)
- Telling Tales (Canongate)
- Liz Ahl
- Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books)
- Home Economics (Seven Kitchens Press)
- Luck (Pecan Grove Press)
- Hala Alyan
- The Twenty Ninth Year (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner)
- Anastacia-Renée Tolbert
- (v.) (Gramma)
- Joan Annsfire
- Distant Music (Headmistress Press)
- Colette Arrand
- Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon (Opo Books and Objects)
- Fatimah Asghar
- If They Come for Us (Penguin Random House)
- Amber Atiya
- the fierce bums of doo-wop (Argos Books)
- Lisa Baird
- Winter’s Gold Girls (Dagger Editions)
- Danielle Badra
- Like We Still Speak (University of Arkansas Press)
- Dialogue with the Dead (Finishing Line Press)
- Adèle Barclay
- Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood Editions)
- Samiya Bashir
- Field Theories (Nightboat)
- Gospel (RedBone)
- Where the Apple Falls (RedBone)
- Robin Becker
- Personal Effects (Alice James Books)
- Backtalk (Alice James Books)
- Giacometti’s Dog (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- All-American Girl (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- The Horse Fair (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Domain of Perfect Affection (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Tiger Heron (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- The Black Bear Inside Me (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Venetian Blue (Frick Art Museum)
- Roxanna Bennett
- unmeaningable (Gordon Hill Press)
- Rosebud Ben-Oni
- turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books Publishing)
- Carolyn Bergvall
- Alisoun Sings (Nightboat Books)
- Cassandra Blanchard
- Fresh Pack of Smokes (Nightwood Editions)
- Maureen Bocka
- First Name Barbie Last Name Doll (Headmistress Press)
- Carolyn Boll
- Social Dance (Headmistress Press)
- Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
- Arrival (Triquarterly)
- Raw Air (Fly By Night Press)
- Night When Moon Follows (Long Shot Productions)
- Convincing the Body (Vintage Entity Press)
- Elizabeth Bradfield
- Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books)
- Once Removed (Persea Books)
- Approaching Ice (Persea)
- Dionne Brand
- Fore Day Morning (Khoisan Artists)
- Earth Magic (Kids Can Press)
- Primitive Offensive (Williams-Wallace International Inc.)
- Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia (Williams-Wallace)
- Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (Williams-Wallace)
- No Language is Neutral (Coach House Press)
- Land to Light On (McClelland & Stewart)
- thirsty (McClelland & Stewart)
- Inventory (McClelland & Stewart)
- Ossuaries (McClelland & Stewart)
- The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos (Duke University Press)
- Farrell Greenwald Brennan
- Diatribe from the Library (Headmistress Press)
- Nicole Brossard
- aube à la saison and These Our Mothers (translated by Barbara Godard)
- White Piano (translated by Érin Mouré & Robert Majzels) (Coach House Books)
- Mobility of Light: The Poetry of Nicole Brossard (edited by Louise H. Forsyth)
- Turn of a Pang (translated by Patricia Claxton) (Coach House Books)
- Museum of Bone and Water (translated by Robert Majzels & Érin Mouré) (House of Anansi Press)
- Notebook of Roses and Civilization (translated by Érin Mouré & Robert Majzels) (Coach House Books)
- Olga Broumas
- Beginning with O (Yale University Press)
- Soie Sauvage (Copper Canyon Press)
- Black Holes, Black Stockings, with Jane Miller (Wesleyan University Press)
- Pastoral Jazz (Copper Canyon Press)
- Perpetua (Copper Canyon Press)
- Sappho’s Gymnasium, with T. Begley (Copper Canyon Press)
- Rave: Poems, 1975–1999 (Copper Canyon Press)
- Ariana Brown
- Sana Sana (Game Over Books)
- Beverly Burch
- Latter Days of Eve: Poems (BkMk Press)
- Stephanie Burt
- We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press)
- After Callimachus (Princeton University Press)
- Advice from the Lights (Graywolf Press)
- Belmont (Graywolf Press)
- Parallel Play (Graywolf Press)
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi
- Rocket Fantastic (Persea Books)
- Apocalyptic Swing (Persea)
- The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea)
- Rocío Carlos
- (the other house) (The Accomplices)
- Audrey Carroll
- Queen of Pentacles (Choose the Sword Press)
- Anne Carson
- If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (Knopf)
- Glass, Irony, and God (New Directions)
- Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf)
- Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (Knopf)
- Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books)
- An Oresteia (Faber & Faber)
- Nox (New Directions)
- Red Doc> (Knopf)
- Float (Knopf)
- Ana Castillo
- Otro Canto (Alternativa Publications)
- The Invitation
- Women Are Not Roses (Arte Público Press)
- My Father was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973–1988 (Norton)
- I Ask the Impossible (Anchor Books)
- Yoseli Castillo Fuertes
- De eso sí se habla / Of That, I Speak
- Sarah Caulfield
- Spine (Headmistress Press)
- Dorothy Chan
- Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions)
- Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press)
- Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review)
- Chinese Girl Strikes Back (Spork Press)
- Stephanie Chan
- Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press)
- Sunu P. Chandy
- My Dear Comrades (Regal House)
- Kristin Chang
- Past Lives, Future Bodies (Black Lawrence Press)
- Marlena Chertock
- Crumb-sized (Unnamed Press)
- On that one-way trip to Mars (Bottlecap Press)
- Staceyann Chin
- Wildcat Woman
- Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (Haymarket Books)
- Franny Choi
- Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing)
- Soft Science (Alice James Books)
- Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press)
- Cara Cilento
- Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World Is Watching
- Barbara Clark
- The Movie At The Back Of My Mind (Viaduct Publishing)
- Cheryl Clarke
- Narratives (Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press)
- By My Precise Haircut (The Word Works Press)
- Living as a Lesbian (Sapphic Classics)
- Humid Pitch (Firebrand)
- Experimental Love (Firebrand)
- Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry, 1980–2005 (Carroll & Graf Publishing)
- Kai Coggin
- Incandescent (Sibling Rivalry)
- Andrea Cohen
- Nightshade (Four Way Books)
- Elizabeth Colen
- What Weaponry (Black Lawrence Press)
- Money for Sunsets (Steel Toe Books)
- Waiting Up for the End of the World (Jaded Ibis Press)
- The Green Condition (Ricochet Editions)
- Flower Conroy
- The Awful Suicidal Swans (Headmistress Press)
- Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder (NFSPS Press)
- Dani Couture
- Good Meat (Pedlar Press)
- Sweet (Pedlar)
- YAW (Mansfield)
- Cristie Cyane
- demain j’y vais (Éditions Geneviève Pastre)
- Elayna Mae Darcy
- Unraveling Light (Magic Key Media)
- marissa dahlson
- Sunshine Girl: a collection of memories (CreateSpace)
- Wendy DeGroat
- Beautiful Machinery (Headmistress Press)
- Risa Denenberg
- Whirlwind @ Lesbos (Headmistress Press)
- slight faith (MoonPath Press)
- Mean Distance from the Sun (Aldrich Press)
- Blinded by Clouds (Hyacinth Girl Press)
- In My Exam Room (The Lives You Touch Publications)
- What We Owe Each Other (The Lives You Touch)
- Lori Desrosiers
- Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (Salmon Poetry)
- The Philosopher’s Daughter (Salmon)
- Inner Sky (Glass Lyre Press)
- Natalie Diaz
- When My Brother Was An Aztec (Copper Canyon Press)
- Ruth Dickey
- Mud Blooms (Harbor Mountain Press)
- Dinah Dietrich
- Paper Cranes (Headmistress Press)
- Frances Donovan
- Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore (CreateSpace)
- Lisa Dordal
- Mosaic of the Dark (Black Lawrence Press)
- r. erica doyle
- proxy (Belladonna* Books)
- Sarah Duncan
- Week/End (Headmistress Press)
- Julie Enszer
- Handmade Love (A Midsummer Night’s Press)
- Sisterhood (Sibling Rivalry Press)
- Avowed (Sibling Rivalry Press)
- Lilith’s Demons (A Midsummer Night’s Press)
- Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
- I’m Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Boost House)
- Shira Erlichman
- Odes to Lithium (Alice James Books)
- Camonghne Felix
- Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books)
- Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
- Look Alive (Semo Press)
- The Undead (Sixth Finch Books)
- Shadow Box (Madhouse Press)
- Tender Age (Headmistress Press)
- Twice Shy (Nomadic Press)
- Harm’s Way (Dancing Girl Press)
- Unseasonalbe Weather (Dancing Girl Press)
- Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press)
- Laura Foley
- Joy Street (Headmistress Press)
- Night Ringing (Headmistress)
- Why I Never Finished My Dissertation (Headmistress Press)
- t’ai freedom ford
- how to get over (Red Hen Press)
- & more black (Augury Books)
- Aricka Foreman
- Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books)
- Angélica Freitas
- Rilke Shake, tr. Hilary Kaplan (Phoneme Media)
- Diane Furtney
- Riddle (Headmistress Press)
- Celeste Gainey
- The Gaffer (Arktoi Books)
- In the land of speculation and seismography (Seven Kitchens Press)
- Suzi F. Garcia
- Dear Dorothy: A Home Grown Fairytale (Skull & Wind Press)
- Olivia Gatwood
- New American Best Friend (Button Poetry)
- Life of the Party (Penguin Random House)
- Tanya Grae
- Undoll (YesYes Books)
- Kate Gray
- For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems (Widow & Orphan House)
- Jewelle Gomez
- Oral Tradition (Firebrand Books)
- Name Poems
- Janice Gould
- The Force of Gratitude (Headmistress Press)
- Beneath My Heart (Firebrand Books)
- Alphabet (May Day Press)
- Earthquake Weather (University of Arizona Press)
- Seed (Headmistress Press)
- Judy Grahn
- Hanging On Our Own Bones (Arktoi Books)
- Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (Women’s Press Collective)
- She Who (Diane Press)
- The Queen of Swords (Beacon Press)
- The Work of a Common Woman (Diana Press)
- love belongs to those who do the feeling (Red Hen Press)
- Julia Guez
- In An Invisible Which Is Also a Frame (Four Way Books)
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Dub: Finding Ceremonies (Duke University Press)
- Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press)
- Marilyn Hacker
- Presentation Piece (Viking Press)
- Separations (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Taking Notice (Knopf)
- Assumptions (Knopf)
- Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (Arbor House)
- Going Back to the River (Vintage Books)
- Selected Poems: 1965–1990 (W. W. Norton & Co.)
- Winter Numbers (W. W. Norton)
- Squares and Courtyards (W. W. Norton)
- Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 (W. W. Norton)
- First Cities: Collected Early Poems 1960–1979 (W. W. Norton)
- Names (W. W. Norton)
- A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994–2013 (W. W. Norton)
- Minal Hajratwala
- Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment (The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective)
- Jane Eaton Hamilton
- Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes (Caitlin Press)
- Body Rain (Brick Books)
- Steam-Cleaning Love (Brick)
- Joy Harjo
- The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (W. W. Norton)
- A Map to the Net World (W. W. Norton)
- How We Became Human (W. W. Norton)
- She Had Some Horses (W.W. Norton)
- Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton)
- An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton)
- Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light (W. W. Norton)
- In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan University Press)
- francine j. harris
- Here is The Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Milla van der Have
- Ghosts of Old Virginny (Aldrich Press)
- Susan Hawthorne
- The Sacking of Muses (Spinifex Press)
- Eloise Klein Healy
- A Wild Surmise (Red Hen Press)
- The Islands Project (Red Hen)
- Ordinary Wisdom (Paradise Press)
- Passing (Red Hen)
- Artemis in Echo Park (Firebrand Books)
- Women’s Studies Chronicles (The Inevitable Press)
- A Packet Beating Like a Heart (Books of a Feather Press)
- Building Some Changes (The Beyond Baroque Foundation)
- Niki Herd
- The Language of Shedding Skin (Main Street Rag)
- Ellen Hopkins
- Tricks (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
- Leah Horlick
- For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press)
- Riot Lung (Thistledown Press)
- wreckoning (JackPine Press)
- JP Howard
- Say/Mirror (The Operating System)
- Jessica K. Hylton
- The Great Scissor Hunt (Headmistress Press)
- Maureen Hynes
- Sotto Voce (Brick Books)
- Candice Iloh
- Catalyst
- And Become
- Break Fast From Her Skin
- Jessica Jacobs
- Take Me With You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books)
- Omotara James
- Daughter Tongue (APBF & Akashic Books)
- Mama Wata (Siren Songs & CCM Press)
- Jenny Johnson
- In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books)
- Roz Kaveney
- Dialectic of the Flesh (A Midsummer Night’s Press)
- Jackie Kay
- The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe Books)
- Other Lovers (Bloodaxe)
- Off Colour (Bloodaxe)
- Two’s Company (Puffin Books)
- Life Mask (Bloodaxe)
- Darling (Bloodaxe)
- The Lamplighter (Bloodaxe)
- Red Cherry Red (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Maw Broon Monologues
- Fiere (Pan Macmillan)
- Reality, Reality (Pan Macmillan)
- The Empathetic Store (Mariscat Press)
- Donika Kelly
- Bestiary (Graywolf)
- Aviarium (500 Places)
- Irena Klepfisz
- A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1971–1990) (The Eighth Mountain Press)
- Keetje Kuipers
- All Its Charms (BOA Editions)
- Joy Ladin
- The Future Is Trying to Tell Us Something (Sheep Meadow Press)
- Fireworks in the Graveyard (Headmistress Press)
- Impersonation (Sheep Meadow)
- The Definition of Joy (Sheep Meadow)
- Psalms (Wipf & Stock)
- Transmigration (Sheep Meadow)
- The Book of Anna (Sheep Meadow)
- Alternatives to History (Sheep Meadow)
- Hannah Larrabee
- Wonder Tissue (Airlie Press)
- Amy Lauren
- Prodigal (Bottlecap Press)
- God With Us (Headmistress Press)
- Ruth Lehrer
- Tiger Laughs When You Push (Headmistress Press)
- Alex Leslie
- Vancouver for Beginners (Book*hug Press)
- Kathryn Leland
- I Wear the Only Garden I’ve Ever Grown (Headmistress Press)
- Robin Coste Lewis
- Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Ali Liebegott
- The Summer of Dead Birds (The Feminist Press)
- Tess Liem
- Tell everybody I say hi (Anstruther)
- Obits. (Coach House Books)
- Roya Marsh
- dayliGht (MCD x FSG)
- Jessica Lowell Mason
- Straight Jacket (Finishing Line Press)
- Jill McDonough
- Reaper (Alice James Books)
- Here All Night (Alice James Books)
- Lynn McGee
- Tracks (Broadstone Books)
- Emma McKenna
- Chenille or Silk (Dagger Editions)
- Rachel McKibbens
- blud (Copper Canyon Press)
- Into the Dark & Emptying Field (Small Doggies Press)
- Pink Elephant (Cypher Books)
- Maureen N. McLane
- Some Say (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux)
- Same Life (FSG)
- World Enough (FSG)
- This Blue (FSG)
- Mz N: the serial (FSG)
- Mary Meriam
- My Girl’s Green Jacket (Headmistress Press)
- The Lillian Trilogy (Headmistress)
- The Countess of Flatbroke (Modern Metrics/Exot Books)
- Constance Merritt
- Blind Girl Grunt (Headmistress Press)
- Two Rooms (Louisiana State University Press)
- Blessings and Inclemencies (Louisiana State UP)
- A Protocol for Touch (University of North Texas Press)
- Jane Miller
- Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions (Copper Canyon Press)
- Deborah A. Miranda
- The Zen of La Llorona (Salt Publishing)
- Cherríe Moraga
- Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios (South End Press)
- The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry (South End Press)
- G.L. Morrison
- Chiaroscuro Kisses (Headmistress Press)
- Gala Mukomolva
- Without Protection (Coffee House Press)
- Lesléa Newman
- I Carry My Mother (Headmistress Press)
- Lovely (Headmistress)
- I Remember: Hachiko Speaks (Finishing Line Press)
- Nobody’s Mother (Orchard House Books)
- Signs of Love (Windstorm Creative Ltd.)
- Still Life with Buddy (Pride Publications)
- Emilia Nielsen
- Surge Narrows (Leaf Press)
- Body Work (Signature Editions)
- Alix Olson
- Burning Down the House (Soft Skull Press)
- Tanya Olson
- Stay (YesYes Books)
- Boyishly (Yesyes Books)
- Michelle Parkerson
- Waiting Rooms (Common Ground Press)
- Mary Peelen
- Quantum Heresies: Poem (Glass Lyre Press)
- Jennifer Perrine
- No Confession, No Mass (University of Nebraska Press)
- In the Human Zoo (University of Utah Press)
- The Body Is No Machine (New Issues)
- Trace Peterson
- Since I Moved (Chax Press)
- Jennifer Angelina Petro
- A Life Lived With Wings (CreateSpace)
- Transcendencies (CreateSpace)
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Bodymap (Mawenzi House Publishers)
- Love Cake (Mawenzi House)
- Consensual Genocide (Mawenzi House)
- Tonguebreaker (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Sarah Pinder
- Common Place (Coach House Books)
- Cutting Room (Coach House)
- Samantha Pious (translator)
- A Crown of Violets: Selected Poems of Renée Vivien (Headmistress Press)
- Minnie Bruce Pratt
- The Sound of One Fork
- We Say We Love Each Other
- Crime Against Nature
- Walking Back Up Depot Street
- The Dirt She Ate: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Cassie Pruyn
- Lena (Texas Tech University Press)
- Nina Puro
- Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
- Linda Quinlan
- Chelsea Creek (BrickHouse Books)
- Meaghan Quinn
- Slow Dance Bullets (Route 7 Press)
- Shivanee Ramlochan
- Everyone Knows I Am A Haunting (Peepal Tree Press)
- Rita Mae Reese
- The Book of Hulga (Arktoi Books)
- The Alphabet Conspiracy (Arktoi Books)
- Jasmine Reid
- Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press)
- Ariana Reines
- A Sand Book (Tin House Books)
- Naomi Replansky
- Ring Song (Scribners)
- Twenty-One Poems, Old and New (Gingko Press)
- The Dangerous World: New and Selected Poems, 1934–1994 (Another Cichaog Press)
- Collected Poems (Black Sparrow Press/Godine)
- Rasiqra Revulva
- Cephalopography 2.0 (Wolsak & Wynn)
- Jo Reyes-Boitel
- Michael + Josephine, a novel in verse (FlowerSong Press)
- Verónica Reyes
- Chopper! Chopper (Arktoi Books)
- Kim Roberts
- The Scientific Method (WordTech Editions)
- Corona/Crown, in collaboration with photographer Robert Revere (WordTech Editions)
- Jen Rouse
- Acid and Tender (Headmistress Press)
- Kay Ryan
- The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press)
- The Niagara River (Grove)
- Say Uncle (Grove)
- Elephant Rocks (Grove)
- Flamingo Watching (Copper Beech Press)
- Strangely Marked Metal (Copper Beech)
- Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends (Taylor Street Press)
- Natasha Sajé
- Vivarium (Tupelo Press)
- Bend (Tupelo Press)
- Red Under the Skin (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Trish Salah
- Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (Roof Books)
- Wanting in Arabic (TSAR Publications)
- Metta Sáma
- After ‘Sleeping to Dream’/After After (Nous-zot Press)
- Swing at your own risk (Kelsey St. Press)
- The Year We Turned Dragon (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs)
- Nicole Santaluccia
- Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press)
- Venus Selenite
- trigger (CreateSpace)
- Sarah Sgro
- If The Future Is A Fetish (YesYes Books)
- Savannah Sipple
- WWJD and Other Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press)
- Jessica Smith
- How to Know the Flowers (Veliz Books)
- Pamela Sneed
- Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery (Henry Holt)
- KONG And Other Works (Vintage Entity Press)
- Gift (Belladonna)
- Jessica Q. Stark
- Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC)
- Jan Steckel
- The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press)
- Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist)
- The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist)
- Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press)
- Carter Steinmann
- Sticky (Headmistress Press)
- Lynn Strongin
- The Burn Poems (Headmistress Press)
- A Bracelet of Honeybees (Headmistress Press)
- Billie Tadros
- Was Body (Indolent Books)
- The Tree We Planted and Buried You In (Otis Books)
- Am/Are I (Francis House Publishing)
- inter:burial places (Porkbelly Press)
- Containers (Dancing Girl Press)
- Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul
- My Woman Card is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths (CreateSpace)
- Marylyn Tan
- GAZE BACK (Ethos Books)
- Kai Cheng Thom
- A Place Called No Homeland (Pulp Arsenal Press)
- Gail Thomas
- Odd Mercy (Headmistress Press)
- KB Thors
- Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House Books)
- Raya Tuffaha
- To All the Yellow Flowers (Golden Antelope)
- Ann Tweedy
- The Body’s Alphabet (Headmistress Press)
- Julene Tripp Weaver
- Truth Be Bold (Finishing Line Press)
- An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues (Finishing Line Press)
- No Father Can Save Her (Plainview Press)
- Valerie Wetlaufer
- Mysterious Acts By My People (Sibling Rivalry Press)
- Call Me By My Other Name (Sibling Rivalry Press)
- Arisa White
- Who’s Your Daddy? (Augury Books)
- You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened (Augury Books)
- A Penny Saved (Willow Books)
- Hurrah’s Nest
- Rachel Wiley
- Nothing Is Okay (Button Poetry)
- Fat Girl Finishing School (Timber Mouse Press)
- Shannon Connor Winward
- Undoing Winter (Finishing Line Press)
- The Year of the Witch (Sycorax Press)
- Kathi Wolfe
- Love and Kumquats (BrickHouse Books)
- Abe Louise Young
- Heaven To Me (Headmistress Press)
- Sandra Yannone
- top (Bigelow Press)
- Boats for Women
- Stephanie Young
- Pet Sounds (Nightboat Books)
- Carina Yun
- On Loving a Saudi Girl (Headmistress Press)
Merci! I love being included on your list ❤ And even though Social Dance is an anglophone book, because I live in lovely bilingual Montréal, there is plenty of English-French wordplay 😀 Bravaaaahhh et bonne journey ma belle!
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I am shocked you left out Elsa Gidlow (1898-1985) who published along with Roswell Mills the first Gay and Lesbian newspaper in North America in 1918. She also published the first lesbian love poetry ( On A Grey Thread) in 1923. Not to mention 13 books and an autobiography in 1985.
http://www.poet-warrior.com
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Thank you for the recommendation! This list catalogues lesbian & bi+ women poets who are currently writing today, but I will add Elsa Gidlow to my other list of “vintage” sapphic poets who were born before 1950: https://samanthapious.com/2017/08/24/vintage-sapphic-poets/
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Hollup. So, Hala Alyan is Bisexual modern poet?
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Added—thank you!
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Hi! I would love to added to this list!
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Thank you for asking—I’ve just added you!
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Do you happen to know of a source that states that Warsan Shire is queer? I’m trying to find one, but this list is the only thing out there it seems.
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Hmm … it’s been a while since I compiled this list, and I can’t remember what source I used to verify Warsan Shire’s identity. Now that you’ve mentioned it, I’m starting to suspect that because so many queer poets have named Warsan Shire as an inspiration or influence, I simply assumed that she was queer herself. Thank you very much for pointing this out!
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