Seattle Picks: Transgender and Genderqueer Poets
This list of poetry by transgender and genderqueer poets was created by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Updated March 2022)
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Villainy
The innovative second collection from Abi-Karam (Extratransmission) addresses personal pleasure, political solidarity, and an inevitably changing and changeable body. -- Publishers Weekly
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Birthright
Palestinian American poet/activist Abraham highlights the plight of the Palestinian people in caustic, free-flowing language. This is poetry not just read but laceratingly felt. -- Library Journal
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Our Weather Our Sea
Inhabits the physicality of the body, landscapes, and daily life with musicality and compassion. This collection at once converses with the past, inhabits the present, and sings to the future. -- Gertrude Press
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Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul
This verse is at once emotional and ruthless. And, nevertheless, coherent. What brings it together is its commitment, in all its modes, to richness of detail. -- Lambda Literary
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Dispatch
Weighed down by the “brutal choreography” of violence against black, queer, and trans bodies, the poet reestablishes buoyancy through will and formidable artistry. -- Publishers Weekly
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When the Chant Comes
Kay Ulanday Barrett has been bringing his unique poetry to audiences for over a decade, unpicking vital political questions around race, sickness and disability and gender, and chronicling the everydayness of life in the U.S. Empire with humor, poignancy and inimitable vitality. -- publisher's copy
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NDN Coping Mechanisms
For all the ferocious energy and one-two punch of language here, this is also a focused, beautifully managed work demanding to be read. -- Library Journal
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The Spectral Wilderness
The Spectral Wilderness is full of beautiful little bodies, written into being (into becoming) by a maker from whom we’ll continue to be amazed and enchanted. -- Lambda Literary
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R E D
In Berggrun's striking debut, a book-length erasure of Bram Stoker's Dracula, that text becomes fertile soil for cultivating complex story of sexual awakening, domestic abuse, and liberation. -- Publishers Weekly
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The Black Trans Prayer Book
An interfaith and beyond faith collection of poems, spells, incantations, theological narrative and visual offerings by Black Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex people. -- publisher's copy
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