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Sep 03
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 34
Yes, we know there are only 31 days in August, but we just had to continue posting poems through the end of this week! Daedalus, After Icarus by Saeed Jones Boys begin to gather around the man like seagulls. He ignores them entirely, but they follow him from one end of the beach to the …
Sep 02
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 33
Yes, we know there are only 31 days in August, but we just had to continue posting poems through the end of this week! Night-Music by Muriel Rukeyser When those who can never again forgive themselvesFinish their dinners, rear up from the chair,Turning to movies are caught in demonstrationsSweeping the avenues — Meet them there. …
Sep 01
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 32
Yes, we know there are only 31 days in August, but we just had to continue posting poems through the end of this week! American Hero by Essex Hemphill I have nothing to lose tonight. All my men surround me, panting, as I spin the ball above our heads on my middle finger. It’s a …
Aug 31
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 31
Musculature by Carl Phillips The last dog I owned, or — more humanely put, soI’m told — that I used to live with, she’d follow meeverywhere. She died eventually. I put her down’smore the truth. It is the truth. And nowthis dog — that I mostly call Sovereignty, both for how sovereignty,like fascination, can be overrated, and for how long it’staken …
Aug 30
Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 30
Golden Retrievals by Mark Doty Fetch? Balls and sticks capture my attentionseconds at a time. Catch? I don’t think so.Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who’s—ohjoy—actually scared. Sniff the wind, then I’m off again: muck, pond, ditch, residueof any thrillingly dead thing. And you?Either you’re sunk in the past, half our walk,thinking of what you never …