read the rainbow
Books and poems by Queer Writers
books
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde
Time Is a Mother • Ocean Vuong
The Essential June Jordan • June Jordan
Don’t Call Us Dead • Danez Smith
Prelude to a Bruise • Saeed Jones
The Dream of a Common Language • Adrienne Rich
Postcolonial Love Poem • Natalie Diaz
If They Come for Us • Fatimah Asghar
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void • Jackie Wang
When They Say You Can’t Go Home Again, What They Mean Is That You Were Never There • Marty McConnell
The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak • Grace Lau
Water I Won’t Touch • Kayleb Rae Candrilli
You Better Be Lightning • Andrea Gibson
Black Girl, Call Home • Jasmine Mans
poems
A Litany for Survival • Audre Lorde
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous • Ocean Vuong
A Poem for My Love • June Jordan
The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar • Danez Smith
A Mark of Resistance • Adrienne Rich
It Was the Animals • Natalie Diaz
If They Should Come for Us • Fatimah Asghar
Masochism of the Knees • Jackie Wang
dream sequence in which names may have been changed to protect • Marty McConnell
My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow • Kayleb Rae Candrilli
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On • Franny Choi
Essay on Synonyms for Tender and a Confession • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo