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Happy National Poetry Day — October 4th (As recognized in the UK - http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/) Take a moment to read and reflect on your favorite or a new poem today. If you’d like to explore a few new poems, Poets.org has a wide selection, including a Queer Poets & Love Poems Page. CLICK here for the link or browse below. Queer Poets & Love Poems Selected by Billy Merrell A list of gay and lesbian poets, along with a selection of queer love poems. Poetry The Hug by Thom Gunn Remember, Body … by C. P. Cavafy Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing by Robert Duncan Love Incarnate by Frank Bidart Untitled [You did say, need me less and I’ll want you more] by Marilyn Hacker Lullaby by W. H. Auden Little Lion Face by May Swenson He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman Novel by Arthur Rimbaud Paul’s Tattoo by Mark Doty The Distant Moon by Rafael Campo The Embrace by Mark Doty Prose Great Anthology: Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time Poets John Ashbery W. H. Auden Frank Bidart Elizabeth Bishop George Gordon Byron Rafael Campo C. P. Cavafy Hart Crane H. D. Mark Doty Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg Thom Gunn Marilyn Hacker Scott Hightower A. E. Housman June Jordan Timothy Liu Audre Lorde J. D. McClatchy William Meredith James Merrill Frank O’Hara Mary Oliver Carl Phillips D. A. Powell Adrienne Rich Arthur Rimbaud Kay Ryan Reginald Shepherd Gertrude Stein May Swenson Walt Whitman Mark Wunderlich

Happy National Poetry Day — October 4th


(As recognized in the UK - http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/)

Take a moment to read and reflect on your favorite or a new poem today.

If you’d like to explore a few new poems, Poets.org has a wide selection, including a Queer Poets & Love Poems Page. CLICK here for the link or browse below.

Queer Poets & Love Poems 
Selected by Billy Merrell

A list of gay and lesbian poets, along with a selection of queer love poems. Poetry

The Hug by Thom Gunn

Remember, Body … by C. P. Cavafy

Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing by Robert Duncan

Love Incarnate by Frank Bidart

Untitled [You did say, need me less and I’ll want you more] by Marilyn Hacker

Lullaby by W. H. Auden

Little Lion Face by May Swenson

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman

Novel by Arthur Rimbaud

Paul’s Tattoo by Mark Doty

The Distant Moon by Rafael Campo

The Embrace by Mark Doty

Prose

Great Anthology: Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time

Poets

John Ashbery

W. H. Auden

Frank Bidart

Elizabeth Bishop

George Gordon Byron

Rafael Campo

C. P. Cavafy

Hart Crane

H. D.

Mark Doty

Robert Duncan

Allen Ginsberg

Thom Gunn

Marilyn Hacker

Scott Hightower

A. E. Housman

June Jordan

Timothy Liu

Audre Lorde

J. D. McClatchy

William Meredith

James Merrill

Frank O’Hara

Mary Oliver

Carl Phillips

D. A. Powell

Adrienne Rich

Arthur Rimbaud

Kay Ryan

Reginald Shepherd

Gertrude Stein

May Swenson

Walt Whitman

Mark Wunderlich

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