Naming the waves: contemporary lesbian poetry

Lovesuit / Beth Allen

To the bone / Dorothy Allison

Not speaking, screaming / Dorothy Allison

Whoring away my imagination / Dorothy Allison

Little enough / Dorothy Allison

Blooming / Jane Barnes

How it starts / Jane Barnes

I want you / Jane Barnes

No / Jane Barnes

Homophobia / Jane Barnes

Naming the waves / Judith Barrington

Passing / Judith Barrington

Lesbian / Judith Barrington

A wish / Linda Bean

The sculptor hears the small birds / Robin Becker

A good education / Robin Becker

When friends leave / Robin Becker

On not being able to imagine the future / Robin Becker

Her name is Helen / Beth Brant

Not "out" to get her / Lorraine Bray

Little red riding hood / Olga Broumas

Landscape with next of kin / Olga Broumas

White trash girl / Roz Calvert

Get over / Roz Calvert

Marilyn / Roz Calvert

Crack corn / Roz Calvert

Waldorf Astoria / Roz Calvert

The recipe / Chaucer Cameron

girlfriends / Andrea Canaan

One fool to another / Chrystos

Sestina: winchell's donut house apostate / Jan Clausen

Lesbian: your image/how it is / Caroline Claxton

The refuge / Janna Davis

Drunken truths / Mary Dorcey

In the city of Boston / Mary Dorcey

Night / Mary Dorcey

America / Mary Dorcey

Blood relations / Mary Dorcey

I had a dream... / Elana Dykewomon

Even my eyes become mouths / Elana Dykewomon

Growing up / U.A. Fanthorpe

Half-term / U.A. Fanthrope

Father in the railway buffet / U.A. Fanthrope

From the third storey / U.A. Fanthorpe

There were three in bed / Eve Featherstone

Poem from Sears, Roebuck and Company, Brooklyn / Paula Finn

Welfare was my husband / Gundrun Fonfa

What I meant to say / Jane Frances

kikambala memories / Sharon Franklet

cunt poem / Sharon Franklet

don't stop / Sharon Franklet

Private puzzles / Kath Fraser

Haiku / Jean Freer

Conversation with the body / Bea Gates

Small world / Bea Gates

I wrap myself / Bea Gates

The other woman / Joan Gibbs

They lookfor the deepest green / Janice Gould

We exist / Janice Gould

Caves on a mountain / Janice Gould

The children who never departed / Janice Gould

The common woman (I, II, IV) / Judy Grahn

A woman is talking to death (part 4) / Judy Grahn

the meanings in the pattern / Judy Grahn

Paris and Helen / Judy Grahn

the good weef is both / Jud Grahn

mrs richie / Pamela Gray

Call this a life lived backwards / Caroline Griffin

Today is full of rain and wind... / Caroline Griffin

Inheritances / Marilyn Hacker

Rune of the Finland woman / Marilyn Hacker

Mother II / Marilyn Hacker

1973 / Marilyn Hacker

Psychic healing / Kate Hall

Smell of myself / Caroline Halliday

This space the tiger / Caroline Halliday

Fragment / Gillian Hanscombe

You like me / Gillian Hanscombe

Your contradiction / Debra Helme

Alone with music / J.P. Hollerith

Not a poet / Joy Howard

Which of us wears the trousers / Maria Jastrzebska

half poem / Maria Jastrzebska

Torba/ the bag / Maria Jastrzebska

Seeing the pope on TV / Maria Jastrzebska

Bilingual / Maria Jastrzebska

You came / Jenn

if I dig enough... / Jackie Kay

Kaddish / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Nagasaki Day: Los Alamos / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

The bogeywoman / Meg Kelly

Changes / Daisy Kempe

virgins and peaches / Tina Kendall

overdrawn / Tina Kendall

Lesbian strength / Kim

Spotting lesbian socks / Linda King

A few words in the mother tongue / Irena Klepfisz

Section from "From the Monkey House and Other Cages" / Irena Klepfisz

they did not build wings for them / Irena Klepfisz

Fradel Schtok / Irena Klepfisz

Short black hair / Jennifer Krebs

Kidnapping II / Jacqueline Lapidus

Translation / Joan Larkin

A thread / Joan Larkin

Rape / Joan Larkin

Origins / Joan Larkin

Genealogy / Joan Larkin

In this divorce / Rebecca Lewin

The lesbian divorce / Rebecca Lewin

Not that i am forever with child / Audre Lorde

Stations / Audre Lorde

Naming the stories / Audre Lorde

Every traveler has one vermont poem / Audre Lorde

Ethiopia / Audre Lorde

Call / Audre Lorde

Kitchen to rainforest / Maia

The long reach / Maia

A message to the collective / Caeia March

La esperanza / Judith McDaniel

Inheritance / Christian McEwen

Love poem / Christian McEwen

After she drowned / Christian McEwen

2 Wren street / Christian McEwen

Spuyten Duyvil / Honor Moore

Cleis / Honor Moore

Biped / Suniti Namjoshi

From the travels of Gulliver / Suniti Namjoshi

Poem for Jackie / Nina Newington

Womanslaughter / Pat Parker

Group / Pat Parker

For the straight folks who don't mind gays... / Pat Parker

there is a woman in this town / Pat Parker

legacy / Pat Parker

Waulking song: II / Minnie Bruce Pratt

Not a gun, not a knife / Minnie Bruce Pratt

Lesbians and mothers / Helen Ramsbottom

Your hair, and / Helen Ramsbottom

Blue / Helen Ramsbottom

In the wake of home / Adrienne Rich

North American time / Adrienne Rich

Tracking poems (a selection) / Adrienne Rich

A Dachau with a German lover / Jennifer Rose

Familial amnesia / Barbara Ruth

Some things about the politics of size / Sapphire

i guess if i was a sound... / Sapphire

A fare/well present / Susan Sherman

He touched me / Linda Smukler

Monkey boy / Linda Smukler

One nutmeg with its coat of mace / Kay Stirling

We feed ourselves / C. Linden Thorp

Not for you / C. Linden Thorp

The orgasm / C. Linden Throp

Sleeping with men / Lisa Vice

Who else you got? / Lisa Vice

Dorothy / Lisa Vice

Sisters / Lisa Vice

leaves and potatoes / Marg Yeo

the truth of it / Marg Yeo

she grew whole / Marg Yeo.