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the perfect queer poem

The Perfect Queer Poem: When You Need to Break Up With Your Lover Who Is Also Your Best Friend

So much of what we might think of as queer lyric poetry comes is set by Sappho’s example: her attempts to speak her desire so emphatically that it wills love…

Natalie —

May 6, 2019

gay marriage

sappho

politics + activism

Queer Histories Matter: How Ancient History Played a Starring Role in the Marriage Equality Case

“Queer histories matter not only for our own sense of identity and pride, but because they impact our legal realities, too.”

Emily —

Jun 26, 2015

andrea gibson

audre lorde

book features

The Vagaries of Love: How Poetry and Queer Movements Give Each Other Names

For National Poetry Month, an ode to the queer poets who talk about their love, fight for justice, and helped me save myself.

Adrian —

Apr 20, 2015

bisexuality

Daily Fix

book features

Two “New” Poems By Sappho Uncovered and Translated, Prove She’s Still Got It

After having been lost to the world for a couple thousand years, two poems written by Sappho have unexpectedly turned up in London following an anonymous collector’s submission to Oxford.

Laura Mandanas —

Feb 6, 2014