LGBTQ+ Pride Poems

• • I Sing the Body Electric

  Walt Whitman
  
• • Movement Song

  Audre Lorde
  
• • Footnote to Howl

  Allen Ginsberg
  
• • Voyages

  Hart Crane
  
• • Dear Gaybashers

  Jill McDonough
  
• • A History of Sexual Preference

  Robin Becker
  
• • Prayer/Oracion

  Francisco X. Alarcón
  
• • Three Addresses

  Terence Winch
  
• • Poem about My Rights

  June Jordan
  
• • The Mortician in San Francisco

  Randall Mann
  
• • The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

  Danez Smith
  
• • Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7

  Rosebud Ben-Oni
  
• • Larry Levan (snake)

  Valerie Martínez
  
• • [Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?]

  Marilyn Hacker
  
• • Dream Ending in a Host of Angels Zipping Me into My Grandmother’s Dress

  Bradley Trumpfheller
  
• • Dear —

  Donika Kelly
  
• • from feeld

  Jos Charles
  
• • A Second Train Song for Gary

  Jack Spicer
  
• • if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then

  Roque Salas Rivera
  
• • Summer

  Chen Chen
  
• • A Litany for Survival

  Audre Lorde
  
• • An American Poem

  Eileen Myles
  
• • American Wedding

  Essex Hemphill
  
• • At Last the New Arriving

  Gabrielle Calvocoressi
  

• • Who Said It Was Simple

  Audre Lorde
  
• • Homosexuality

  Frank O'Hara
  
• • Ordinary Time

  Tim Dlugos
  
• • Glitter in My Wounds

  CAConrad
  
• • Gay Pride Weekend, S.F., 1992

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  
• • body without the “d”

  Justice Ameer
  
• • VII. Change

  Anne Carson
  
• • LISP

  Sam Sax
  
• • This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom

  Robert Duncan
  
• • Hymen

  H.D.
  
• • All the Dead Boys Look Like Me

  Christopher Soto
  
• • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

  Ocean Vuong
  
• • G-9

  Tim Dlugos
  
• • My Erotic Double

  John Ashbery
  
• • Queer Appalachia

  RK Fauth
  

• • Ode to Walt Whitman

  Federico García Lorca
  
• • elegy for kari edwards

  Julian Talamantez Brolaski
  
• • Duncan

  Thom Gunn
  
• • The Lyric In A Time of War

  Eloise Klein Healy
  
• • Breakfast with Thom Gunn

  Randall Mann
  
• • In Memory of Joe Brainard

  Frank Bidart
  
• • James Schuyler

  David Trinidad
  
• • Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop

  J. D. McClatchy
  
• • Burroughs

  Robert Glück
  
• • To the Angelbeast

  Eduardo C. Corral
  
• • Leo & Lance

  Randall Mann
  

• • We’ve Always Been Here, Fighting

  Christopher Soto
  
• • They Were Here

  Allen Ellenzweig
  
• • Language Could Kill Us

  Patrick Nathan
  
• • Crush Notes

  Hugh Ryan
  
• • Casting Spells

  Garrett Caples
  
• • The Gay Gospel of Aaron Smith

  Jameson Fitzpatrick
  
• • Mourning in America

  Tiana Reid
  
• • Zines From a Revolution

  Michael Bronski
  
• • A Politics of Mere Being

  Carl Phillips
  
• • I Hope I Haven’t Bored You

  Christopher Spaide
  
• • Lady of the Moon

  Gabrielle Bellot
  
• • Dear Sister Outsider

  Lavelle Porter
  
• • Our Only Allegiance Is to Each Other

  TC Tolbert
  
• • In Love With Queer Words

  Sally Connolly, Randall Mann & Edmund White