LGBTQ+ Poets
Librarians at The Seattle Public Library selected this list of recent poetry by LGBTQ+ poets. (May 2026)
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Here in the (middle) of Nowhere
In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black woman in a town. (Publisher description)
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Let the Moon Wobble
In poems that span a wide range of forms and poetic traditions, Ang considers multiple speakers' journeys through concurrent apocalypses. . . Ultimately, Let the Moon Wobble shows how queer joy and community can fuel resistance and allow us to imagine radical new ways of being. (Publisher description)
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The Idea of An Entire Life
Billy-Ray Belcourt's new collection, The Idea of an Entire Life, is a meditation on what it means to exist in multiple temporalities at once—to be Cree and queer in a present still structured by colonial violence, where 'the twentieth century never ended.' (Los Angeles Review of Books)
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Consider the Rooster
The innovative and ecologically minded third collection from Bendorf finds solace in the connections between the human and nonhuman world, centering and celebrating transformation. (Publishers Weekly)
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Super Gay Poems
In this well selected and compulsively readable anthology, Harvard English professor Burt presents 51 poems that address and exemplify queerness in America. (Publishers Weekly)
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Winter of Worship
Told through an ever-queer lens, Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s fourth collection is a patchwork of the pastoral and the 'litter swirled around us'—a pandemic, global warming, a hometown hit by storms of fentanyl and Oxycontin scripts. (Publisher description)
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Return of the Chinese Femme
An unabashed exploration of queerness, excess, identity, and tenderness from award-winning poet Dorothy Chan. The speaker in Dorothy Chan's fifth collection, Return of the Chinese Femme, walks through life fearlessly, 'forehead forever exposed,' the East Asian symbol of female aggression. (Publisher description)
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Unrest in the Nebulae
In unrest in the nebulae, Gitan Djeli wields prose poetry to archive five hundred years of exploitative colonization, ecocide, extinction, militarization and deportation, slavery, indenture, negotiated nationhood, postcolonial plantation structures, and apologist histories. (Publisher description)
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Local Woman
In sensual, evocative lyrics, Jzl Jmz documents Local Woman’s movement through natural disaster, anti-fascist protest, romantic engagements, and an expanding sense of personal autonomy. (Publisher description)
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I Don't Want to Be Understood
The potent and focused fourth collection from Espinoza (There Should Be Flowers) captures the danger, mental strain, and transcendence of a trans woman's experience. (Publishers Weekly)
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