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Becky Birtha – The Forbidden Poems; Carol Ann Duffy – Feminine Gospels; Love Poems; Catherine Campbell - More Than Love; More Than Pain; Cherríe Moraga – La Guera; Chrystos – In Her I Am; Edna St Vincent Millay – Women Have Loved Before as I Love Now; What Lips My Lips Have Kissed; Eileen Myles – Sappho's Boat; Irony of the Leash
Lesbian literature is a subgenre of literature addressing lesbian themes. It includes poetry, plays, fiction addressing lesbian characters, and non-fiction about lesbian-interest topics. A similar term is sapphic literature, encompassing works that feature love between women that are not necessarily lesbian. [2] [3] [4]
The poems featured in the collection center around Parker's experiences as a Black woman, lesbian, feminist, mother, writer, poet, and activist. In its first three pressings, Movement In Black had four sections: Married, Liberation Fronts, Being Gay, and Love Poems; [4] the expanded edition includes a fifth section, New Work. [5]
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners (20 P) S. Sappho (4 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Lesbian poets" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 ...
Other themes include lesbian identity, [6] honesty and the power of speech, [7] mortality, [8] a love of horses [9] and living with limited mobility. [10] Her poetry has won numerous awards including the Gregory O'Donaghue International Poetry Prize, [ 11 ] the Dulwich Festival International Poetry Competition, and the International Laurence ...
The section, "Twenty-one Love Poems," is a group of lesbian love poems that aim to present the power of love between two women and the need to change the cultural values that do not recognize this as a kind of love. The love poems comment on how women involved in lesbian relationships are alienated because their love is not recognized by the ...
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Catullus 5 in Latin and English. Catullus 5 is a passionate ode to Lesbia and one of the most famous poems by Catullus.The poem encourages lovers to scorn the snide comments of others, and to live only for each other, since life is brief and death brings a night of perpetual sleep.