LGBTQ+ Poets
Librarians at The Seattle Public Library selected this list of recent poetry by LGBTQ+ poets. (May 2026)
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Instructions for the Lovers
Martin's avant-garde fifth volume employs a fragmented form that invites readers to explore epicurean - and sometimes hedonistic - complexity and vulnerability. (Publishers Weekly)
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Cowboy Park
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. (Publisher description)
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Blush / River / Fox
In their first English-language publication, Swedish artist and writer Nygren pushes and pulls language forms, creating a tripartite poetry collection that is visceral, playful, urgent, and fragmented. (Library Journal)
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Kitchen Hymns
Host of On Being's beloved Poetry Unbound podcast, Irish poet Ó Tuama continues his search for a faith not borne strictly of religious practice . . .Heartfelt, questing poems for anyone reconsidering how to believe. (Library Journal)
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Scattered Snows, to the North
Phillips brings an increased awareness to endings in this elegant collection. . . This is another poised addition to Phillips's dazzling body of work. (Publishers Weekly)
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Good Dress
Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers’s Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. (Publisher description)
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Algarabía
Algarabía is an epic poem that follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. (Publisher description)
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Blue Opening
Through accounts of chronic illness, generational trauma, and holding out hope for the future, the yearning third volume from Sebree traces a desire to understand one's origins. . .Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy. (Publishers Weekly)
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I Do Know Some Things
As he claws himself back into a self, into a body, Siken has written a book that is unsettling and autobiographical by necessity, and its seventy-seven prose poems invite the reader to risk a difficult intimacy in search of yet deeper truths. (Publisher description)
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A Body More Tolerable
a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. Divided into three parts, the book examines Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception. (Publisher description)
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