Pride and Poetry: Love Poems by Queer Poets

	June 21, 2011 Share on Facebook E-mail to Friend From the Poetry Store: Love Speaks Its Name A hardbacked collection of the finest gay and lesbian love poetry throughout history, from Sappho to Muriel Rukeyser, edited by acclaimed poet J.D. McClatchy. $12.50 | Order Now		In honor of National Pride Month, celebrate the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer poets and poetry as Poets.org brings together a showcase of audio, video, poetry, and prose—resources as exciting and diverse as the communities they represent. Check out work by contemporary poets Kay Ryan, Mark Doty, Jericho Brown, Julian T. Brolaski, Eileen Myles, and others, along with classic poems by queer poets from Sappho to Whitman. On the web at: www.poets.org/LGBTQ   Browse poems about romance, lust, and heartache: Lullaby by W.H. Auden Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm... Love Incarnate by Frank Bidart To all those driven berserk or humanized by love... The Next Table by C. P. Cavafy translated by Avi Sharon He can't be more than twenty-two... Wild Nights - Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson Wild Nights – Wild Nights! / Were I with thee... The Embrace by Mark Doty You weren't well or really ill yet either... The Hug by Thom Gunn It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined... An Untitled Sonnet by Marilyn Hacker You did say, need me less and I'll want you more... He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman He would not stay for me... syntax by Maureen N. McLane and if / I were to say // I love you and / I do love you... Starlight by William Meredith Going abruptly into a starry night / It is ignorance we blink from... Sonnet XLIII by Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why... Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree by D. A. Powell Something seems to have gnawed that walnut leaf... Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich Saw you walking barefoot / taking a long look / at the new moon's eyelid... Elegy in Joy by Muriel Rukeyser We tell beginnings: for the flesh and the answer... Antique by Arthur Rimbaud translated by John Ashbery Graceful son of Pan! Around your forehead crowned / with small flowers and berries... The Anactoria Poem by Sappho translated by Jim Powell Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers... Blue by May Swenson Blue, but you are Rose, too, / and buttermilk... Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] by Walt Whitman In paths untrodden... / Escaped from the life that exhibits itself... Thanks for being a part of the Poets.org community. You may unsubscribe from this newsletter at any time. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343