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Queer Love Poems

LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community.

By The Editors

Queer love illustration by Jia Sung.

Illustration by Jia Sung.

PASSION

- Peanut Butter
Eileen Myles
- Beautiful Signor
Cyrus Cassells
- Love Poem to a Butch Woman
Deborah A. Miranda
- [Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?]
Marilyn Hacker
- Recreation
Audre Lorde
- Mayakovsky
Frank O'Hara
- Pupil
D. A. Powell
- You Love, You Wonder
Brenda Shaughnessy
- Dreaming of Lesbos
Tatiana de la Tierra
- Six Sonnets: Crossing the West
Janice Gould
- Husky Boys' Dickies
Jill McDonough
- A Poem of Love in Eleven Lines
Gerrit Lansing
- Yr Not Exotic, but Once Ya Wanted to Be
Tarfia Faizullah
- The Aureole
Nikky Finney
- On Trans
Miller Oberman
- Trojan
Jericho Brown

LONG-TERM LOVE

- Domestic
Carl Phillips
- The Hug
Thom Gunn
- What Kind of Times Are These
Adrienne Rich
- Winter
Timothy Liu
- Asking About You
Eloise Klein Healy
- [the day shifts . . .]
kari edwards
- Proportion Surviving
Renee Gladman
- Thaw
TC Tolbert

FOR THE BELOVED

- Poem for My Love
June Jordan
- One Girl
Sappho
- A Lady
Amy Lowell
- Accidents of Birth
William Meredith

LOVE POEMS FOR STRANGERS

- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
Walt Whitman
- The Dream
Aphra Behn
- The Fluffer Talks of Eternity
D. A. Powell
- The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
Rigoberto González
- Other Fugitives and Other Strangers
Rigoberto González
- Words to be Broadcast over Eagle’s Nest Sound System –I
Brad Gooch
- Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)
Emily Dickinson
- Three a.m.
Jill McDonough

LONG DISTANCE

- A Second Train Song for Gary
Jack Spicer
- In Trust
Thom Gunn

HEARTBREAK AND LONGING

- One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
- Sonnet 16
Richard Barnfield
- Project for a Fainting
Brenda Shaughnessy
- Oh God
Michelle Tea
- Poem ("Instant coffee with...")
Frank O'Hara
- Poem for Haruko
June Jordan
- On World-Making
Nomi Stone
- Tenor
Luther Hughes