#queer-poets — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115894147194366906

If you were waiting for a sign, here it is.

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Nothing had ever hit me quite like Andrea’s voice did that night.
Their poems packed so much fiery, tender truth. The way they wrote about love, pain, queerness, and survival was equal parts gentle and fierce. Political without losing intimacy, intimate without losing bite.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/queer-poet-andrea-gibson-made-me-less-afraid-to-feel-it-all-3c98211112a9?sk=6b3b59309b74d2ed81950d9613bb618a

#LGBTQ #Poets #QueerPoets #AndreaGibson

"Instead of Depression by Andrea Gibson

try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don't even dream. It's okay if you can't imagine spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave."

— Andrea Gibson: You Better Be Lightning, p. 32

We lost a star today. Thank you for sharing yourself with us, Andrea. #TodaysPoem #AndreaGibson #QueerPoets #NonbinaryPoets #Poetry

The title — Love Is A Dangerous Word — underscores how radical it is to love within and across marginalized communities. The Trump administration is willing to do everything in its power to break this solidarity because it knows that love is, indeed, dangerous to its an authoritarian regime.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/essex-hemphill-and-the-radical-power-of-black-queer-love-7e318d048a0c?sk=3d95c4bc9d02dbec7f384c5d26c509cc

#LGBTQ #Poets #BlackPoets #QueerPoets

"Werewolf Avoidance by Nikki Giovanni

I've never "blogged" before so this is new territory for me I do poet though and that is always somewhere in the netherland I think poetry is employed by truth I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing

Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words that might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love Poet is garlic Not for everyone but for those who take it never get caught by werewolves"

— Nikki Giovanni: Chasing Utopia, p. 80

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #BlackPoets #QueerPoets #NikkiGiovanni

"A Robin's Poem by Nikki Giovanni

if you plant grain you get fields of flour if you plant seeds you get grass or babies i planted once and a robin red breast flew in my window but a tom cat wouldn't let it stay"

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 119

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets #BlackHistoryMonth

"The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence."

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 51

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets

"Sometimes by Nikki Giovanni

sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe"

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 132

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets

As a trans poet, I understand freedom comes not solely from visibility, but from creation—creating spaces where others can activate their own trans selves as well.
https://buff.ly/3PahJUu

#LGBTQ #QueerPoetry #Poets #QueerPoets

hello Mastadon I have a book coming out soon <3

echolalia echolalia comes out Ocotber 1st with Brick books

#Poet #Poetry #QueerPoets #DisabledPoets

https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/echolalia-echolalia-by-jane-shi/