Seattle Picks: Transgender and Genderqueer Poets
This list of poetry by transgender and genderqueer poets was created by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Updated March 2022)
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It Was Never Going to Be Okay
simpson's debut is a raw, introspective portrait of trauma and healing. -- Library Journal
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Homie
Smith (Don't Call Us Dead) presents an electrifying, unabashedly queer ode to friendship and community in their exuberant and mournful second collection. -- Publishers Weekly
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Subject to Change
This anthology includes a range of trans experiences and poetics, expanding the possibilities of what it means to be both trans and a writer in the twenty-first century. -- publisher's copy
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My Woman Card Is Anti-native & Other Two-spirit Truths
A book of free verse poems, haikus and sonnets inspired by a conversation with the Legendary Venus Selenite, by the author's love for classical theatre, by her connection to her community, and by her experiences navigating eurocentrism in medicine & social life. -- publisher's copy
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A Place Called No Homeland
In Thom’s work, queerness is sensational but not sensationalized, and beauty, memory and desire are done right, sublime in their specificity. -- Publishers Weekly
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All the Flowers Kneeling
These searingly honest, beautifully told depictions of survival and self-love will move and challenge readers. -- Publishers Weekly
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Blues Divine
These poems have been creative salvations, signposts, people's history and testimonies. Inside is a journey of many intersections and switchbacks, fast running rivers and swamplands, as well as those sacred places where sun splits the sky wide open. -- publisher's copy
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We Want It All
This anthology imagines poetry as a resource by which the community might stand "against capital and empire," using language to reimagine collective struggle. -- Publishers Weekly
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Full-metal Indigiqueer
Using binary code and texts from classics of the English language such as Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene , Joshua Whitehead unravels the coded "I" to trace the formation of a colonized self and reclaim representations of Indigenous texts. -- publisher's copy
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The Year of Blue Water
Yanyi's debut collection offers compressed meditations on the complex relationship between personal and social consciousness, inviting readers to participate in pursuing deep questions whose answers matter less than the shared, ongoing experience of asking. -- Library Journal
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