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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Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums
These poems’ sensuous imagery and heart-wrenching confessions will linger in readers’ minds. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Tar Hollow Trans
Grover explores her transgender experience through common Appalachian cultural traditions. (Publisher)
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Brown Neon
Gutiérrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity, and citizenship with curiosity and nuance. (Publisher)
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Quietly Hostile
Bouncing between irreverence and poignancy, this keeps the laughs coming while serving up intimate personal reflection and entertaining cultural commentary. (Publishers Weekly)
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Alive at the End of the World
Jones confronts the everyday perils of white supremacy with a finely tuned poetic ear, identifying moments that seem routine even as they open chasms of hurt. (Publisher)
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Punks
Divided into seven sections that span the writer's career, this brilliant, expansive collection offers panoramic insight into Keene's work. (Publishers Weekly)
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Couplets
A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone. (Publisher)
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Virology
A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays.(Publisher)
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The Future Is Disabled
Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC. (Publisher)
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Uncle of the Year
In conversational prose, Rannells successfully welcomes readers into his world with humor, grace, and wisdom.(Publishers Weekly)
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