Articles on Lesbian History, Including by Hephaestus Books

Some great resources for discovering more authors are: this list of LBT+ Women & Non-Binary Contemporary Poets (and if you are looking for other queer women poets, I can’t recommend Leah Lakshmi-Piepzna Samarasinha highly enough!), looking at the Lambda Literary Awards winner (and nominees) for the Lesbian Poetry category, and the Goodreads list of Best Lesbian Poetry. This, of course, does not begin to scratch the surface in highlighting amazing lesbian poetry! Feel free to comment with of your favorites that I missed. The living room floor, my face pressed into a

Sleeping bags like straitjackets spread out on I loved them with my eyes closed, my back turned. It is divided into two sections: “When I Was Straight” and “After.” Its connotation of female homosexuality was added in the. As it was first used in the late 16th century, the word Lesbian was the capitalized adjectival term referring to the Greek island of Lesbos. If you’re looking for coming out poetry, the tiny book When I Was Straightby Julie Marie Wade would be up your alley. lesbianism, also called sapphism or female homosexuality, the tendency of a human female to be emotionally and usually sexually attracted to other females, or the state of being so attracted. Sappho is the foundation of queer women literature, including giving us the words lesbian and sapphic, but lesbian poetry books have in general been some of the first explicitly lesbian books published through time. (Both translated by Anne Carson in If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho) He seems to me equal to the gods that manįor when I look at you, even a moment, no speakingīut all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty.

One of the few (almost) complete poems we have still resonates today:

Of course, Sappho is the one that started it all, though we have to make due with only fragments of her poetry, leaving us with tantalizing scraps of poems like: I’ve been researching the history of lesbian literature (as you do), and one of the things that I’ve learned is that lesbian poetry has been at the foundation of lesbian lit.

Articles on Lesbian History, Including by Hephaestus Books