“But I Don’t Feel Empowered” is Suri Chan’s debut collection of honest, free-verse and whimsically illustrated poems. She explores themes of heartbreak, womanhood, and trauma from the lens of a queer Asian woman coming of age. 

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Housed in the lived experiences of a queer Latinx person born and raised in the border town of El Paso, Cowboy Park seamlessly blends themes of masculinity, identity, and the immigrant experience, offering a new perspective on the iconic image of the cowboy and a deeper understanding of the complexities of human experience.

Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch set out to collect Arab and Arabophone queer writing. The result is an anthology brimming with gems by emerging and established writers and an homage to the lineages and complexities of queer Arab life.

In this collection, Brad Walrond traces Blackness, queerness, and desire through the legacy of New York’s late 90s-early 2000s underground arts movements. 

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Across four sections, poems navigate the terrain of queer, normative, and ambiguous intimacies with a frank intelligence: “It’s better to be illegible, sometimes. Then they can’t govern you.” Strangers, ancestors, priests, ghosts, the inner child, sisters, misfit raccoons, Rimbaud, and Rilke populate the pages. 

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“In Parachutes Descending” follows the speaker’s decision to leave her Bostonian husband for Jane, a San Franciscan artist, while charting the sensual consequences of our bodily entanglements. 

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A taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. 

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For three decades, the legacy of the revered writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill’s poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of sexuality, gender, and race; the American political landscape; and his own experiences as a black gay man during the AIDS crisis.

In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of its original publication, this expanded edition of Loving in the War Years includes selections from The Last Generation: Poetry and Prose and other writings. The result is a synergy of signature works crucial to the development of the intersectional politics we know today. 

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This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, “Queer Nature” offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world.

The raw poems inside “Song of My Softening” studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. 

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Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969.