LGBTQ+ Poetry and Essays
Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: LGBTQIA+ Poetry and Essays. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. GN=Graphic Novel (Created May 2024)
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Transcendence Affirmed
40 haiku-inspired poems and 40 sets of corresponding affirmations originally written in response to the question, ‘Transcestors, what would you have wanted to hear to help you survive? (Publisher)
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I Finally Bought Some Jordans
Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled--and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. (Amazon)
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A Film in Which I Play Everyone
Bang's cinematic ninth collection takes a tour of lived experience through a capricious lens that superpositions the familiar and the uncanny. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Male Gazed
Betancourt brings a Colombian perspective to the concept of masculinity in his native country, the larger Latin American world, and U.S. pop culture. (Library Journal)
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Homeland of My Body
A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco's selections from his five previous volumes. (Publisher)
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We Are Mermaids
Burt explores pop culture, myth, and flora and fauna in her latest, a layered reflection on identity. (Publishers Weekly)
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Feast
The poems in this collection-many of which revolve around food and its cultural significances-examine the brown body's relationship with nourishment. (Publisher)
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Dinner on Monster Island
In this poignant memoir-in-essays, De Rozario intertwines stories about growing up queer and brown in Singapore with her analysis of her favorite horror films. (Publishers Weekly)
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Embodied
GN. A unique collection of intersectional feminist poetry-in-comics, a collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists. (Publisher)
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Un-American
Poetry that investigates definitions of belonging in relation to migration, religion, language, and loss, tracing a family history between Nigeria and the United States. (Publisher)
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