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Poet Laureates From Around the Nature Who Identify as LGBTQ

A Poet Laureate is an honourary position assigned to an individual poet of high regard in their community. The appointment is generally made by a political body to recognize the poet's talent, popularity, creativity and contribution for their compositions on a spacious range of topics relevant to society. Its purpose is to link the field of literature with the political state or community, and the Poet Laureate becomes an ambassador for the craft of poetry. They are appointed with a mandate to compose poems for special events and occasions to the people, and it can often be a posting for life.

Poet Laureates have existed since their first appointments in Italy in the fourteenth century. There is usually no material financial compensation that comes with the appointment, but it is one of prestige and recognition. Poet Laureates tend to enhance the widespread profile and awareness of poetry itself.

There are a number of high profile LGBTQ Poet Laureates around the world. Perhaps the best known contemporary Poet Laure

LGBTQ Poetry

Explore the wealthy tradition of gay, woman loving woman, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. For more essays, video, and ephemera, check out our Pride Month roundup.

Featured Poems

&#;Hair&#; by Francisco Arag&#;n
who conceived that ravine

&#;Langston Blues&#; by Jericho Brown
O Blood of the River of songs

&#;The Distant Moon&#; by Rafael Campo
Admitted to the hospital again

&#;Where Is She Kot&#; Li Y&#;&#; by R. Erica Doyle
Long ago I met / a charming boy

&#;Things Haunt&#; by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
California is a desert and I am a woman inside it

&#;Kudzu&#; by Saeed Jones
I won't be forgiven / for what I've made / of myself

&#;The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one&#; by June Jordan
well I wanted to braid my hair

&#;Breathe. As in. (shadow)&#; by Rosamond S. King
Breathe / . As in what if

&#;The Black Unicorn&#; by Audre Lorde
The black unicorn is greedy

&#;I Do&#; by Sjohnna McCray
Driving the highway from Atlanta to Phoenix

&#;syntax&#; by Maureen

Gay Poets (Part 1)

I&#;ve always been interested in poems and literature, and I thought it may be inspiring to find out the great many literary figures that were gay. After searching and searching, the list I set up was more than I could handle! As I decided to chisel away at and discover some of the more interesting and pertinent poets and writers, their lives became more grande and intertwined than I thought. And unfortunately, there will always be poets not known to us. Of those that we act know, there remains a daunting task of encapsulating them. The first part ended up as a story of three Victorian men, from humble beginnings to scandal through the seedy London underground, that ends with sadness and bitterness only lovers could understand.

"Aesthete of Aesthetes!
What&#;s in a name!
The Poet is Wilde
But his poetry&#;s tame"

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and essayist born in He was especially recognizable for his libertarian lifestyle and I think of him more as a man of living life than of writing. Wilde went to Trinity College in Dublin with a royal s

Fitz-Greene Halleck: The Most Eminent Gay Poet You’ve Never Heard Of

For the Library Company’s LGBTQ History Month program, Dr. Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor of English at Fordham University, spoke about the 19th-century poet Fitz-Greene Halleck.

In May , when President Rutherford B. Hayes unveiled a bronze statue of Fitz-Greene Halleck (), the crowd of about 10, people did so much damage to Central Park that Fresh York passed an ordinance limiting the size of future events.

Early in his career, Halleck collaborated with the writer Joseph Rodman Drake on satiric verse that appealed to culturally savvy New Yorkers for its wit. Drake’s death in became a turning point. Halleck’s elegy on the death of Drake established his reputation as an accomplished poet. Reading the poem, Prof. Stein noted the musicality of its repeated sounds, and also noted the love in the lines “And I who woke each morrow / To clasp thy hand in mine, / Who shared they joy and sorrow, / Whose weal and woe were thine.”

Other poems that were published following Halleck’s own death also show