Essential queer voices of U.S. poetry / edited by Christopher Nelson ; introduced by Jack Halberstam.

Queer
Half-light / Frank Bidart
A farewell to the Finland woman / Marilyn Hacker
Revolutionary dreams
Master charge blues
That day
But since you finally asked / Nikki Giovanni
Say uncle
Winter fear / Kay Ryan
Mammogram callback with ultrasound
Ode to fat / Ellen Bass
I'm watching Argo on the small screen and trying to write an erotic poem
The sky is an elephant / Maureen Seaton
Harmless ode with Osip Mandelstam / Jane Miller
Tryst
She loves / Olga Broumas
Holes
[I always put my pussy] / Eileen Myles
Dyke
Late apology / Robin Becker
Initial conditions
Shame
Temporary / Boyer Rickel
Florescence on 4th Avenue
The canary / Rebecca Seiferle
Counting my scars
The boy / David Trinidad
Charlie Howard's descent
Homo will not inherit / Mark Doty
[I met a man]
[I give myself / the same seven / minutes] / Samuel Ace
The ceaseless turning / Barbara Cully
Tinguage
Essay on touch
Dear fisher cat (Martes pennanti) / Natasha Sajé
Doves
American kestrel / Henri Cole
Mirtiotissa! / Cyrus Cassells
The way the world comes back
Ghost ranch / Janet McAdams
The aureole
Miss Polly is akimbo underneath the Mother Emanuel collection table / Nikky Finney
Like the sweet wet earth itself
Anywhere like peace / Carl Phillips
Eleven
Acapulco / Andrea Cohen
Mala 60 / cornerstone / Suzanne Gardinier
Offerings
God's house / Deborah A. Miranda
The pleasures of the dark
The end of the Pride parade / D.A. Powell
Lure
The body in August / Robin Coste Lewis
Love poem
Broken arm / Lisa Dordal
Mission and outpost / John Keene
Intimacy
Thoreau
Rest stop, Highway 91 / Timothy Liu
hulk smash / Lee Ann Roripaugh
from Listen to the golden boomerang return / CAConrad
Boot theory
A primer for the small weird loves / Richard Siken
Love as if love
Maybe / Richard Blanco
from 13th balloon / Mark Bibbins
Invention
A husband's prayer / Mark Wunderlich
Whitman, 1841
On gardens / Rick Barot
Entry
Pulse: a memorial in Driftwood, Cannon Beach, Oregon / Caridad Moro-Gronlier
Maelstrom
Night air / C. Dale Young.

Straight's the new gay
I'm over the moon / Brenda Shaughnessy
from "The bordercrosser's pillowbook" / Rigoberto González
from Be recorder / Carmen Giménez
Icarus turns fifty
Yield / Kazim Ali
Amor fati
Passing / Blas Falconer
A woman looks at her breasts in the mirror the way
How to take down an altar / Francine J. Harris
Order
Young Republican / Randall Mann
Of liberation
My life in politics / Magdalena Zurawski
In Colorado my father scoured and stacked dishes
To Francisco X. Alarcón / Eduardo C. Corral
Salutatorian
Learning / Brian Blanchfield
some said you were the spitting image of evil
the distance between what we have and what we want / t'ai freedom ford
Shave
Who holds the stag's head gets to speak / Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Status
The sunlight / Miguel Murphy
Pray the gay away
The world of men / Aaron Smith
Abandoned palinode for the twenty suitors of June / Brian Teare
Imago Dei
What I really want to know is how rough, Melissa / TC Tolbert
Queer youth are five times more likely to die by suicide / Andrea Gibson
the sandbox
salvage / Rachel McKibbens
Driving drunk
SLC punk! / Ruben Quesada
As a human being
Duplex
Stand
Bullet points / Jericho Brown
Early English history
Romantic comedy / James Allen Hall
Carpe damn
Busted Xmas card / Ana Božičević
Hysteroscopy
Breasts / Jennifer Perrine
I-797-C
The Dream Act / Jan-Henry Gray
Why I hate raisins
American arithmetic
How the Milky Way was made / Natalie Diaz
André Leon Talley's caftan
Diva worship / Tommye Blount
For the living in the New World
Private collection / Shelley Wong
Upon stumbling across a beached bottlenose dolphin carcass at Provincetown
Pandemic love poem / Rajiv Mohabir
Bestia
Girlbody gift / Vanessa Angélica Villareal
Self-portrait with door
From The catalogue of cruelty / Donika Kelly
Dirty glass
Control
Wound / Charif Shanahan
from Nature poem / Tommy Pico
On my way to meet her in Liberty Park before the first snow
When they took her breasts, she dreamt of Icarus / Meg Day
from This household of earthly nature / Cody-Rose Clevidence
August
New moon / Alex Dimitrov
How Grandmother paid her passage to New York
I learn of slaughter
Rapture / Rachel Mennies
Boy found inside a wolf
Drag
Alive at the end of the world / Saeed Jones
Treyf
Butthole / Sam Sax
Epithalamium
Final poem for Grandma Elizabeth's cancer / Phillip B. Williams
The great glass closet / Benjamin Garcia
Book of statues
The antiquities / Richie Hofmann
It doesn't matter if I'm understood
It is important to be something / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
First gesture in reverse
Esparto, California / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Black hauntology no. 6: the hang around blues
Black martyrdom no. 6: litany of the spectacle / Jonah Mixton-Webster
Threshold
Telemachus / Ocean Vuong
from feeld: XXVIII, XLV / Jos Charles
A boy steps into the water
Some boys aren't born they bubble / Kaveh Akbar
Upon learning that some Korean war refugees used partially detonated napalm canisters as cooking fuel
Rememory / Franny Choi
Summer
I invite my parents to a dinner party / Chen Chen
Remembering God after three years of depression
Exegesis as self-elegy
In the decade of silence / Derrick Austin
Straight girls
Triple sonnet, because she makes me hot / Dorothy Chan
I'm a young cowboy and know I've done wrong
Tatiana / Catherine Pond
Carolina prayer
Beneficence / Justin Phillip Reed
fall poem
say it with your whole black mouth / Danez Smith
Faggot poetics
Cento between the ending and the end / Cameron Awkward-Rich
A boy & his mother play dead at dawn
This dusk in a mouth full of prayer / Michael Wasson
How to become the moon
The Indian capital of the world / Jake Skeets
All the dead boys look like us
The terrorist shaved his beard / Christopher Soto
On crescents & waning
One geography of belonging / Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Landscape with the fall of Icarus: oil on canvas: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: 1560
Bioluminescence / Paul Tran
All I ever wanted to be was nothing at all
On using the wo/men's bathroom / torrin a. greathouse.