Museum of American Poetics Exhibits

The Sexuals

This exhibit features the diversity of American poetic experimentation among LGBT Queer Nation poet-heralds writing of social justice, comradeship, sisterhood, sexual & gender openness, and homoerotica.

  Stonewall Riots
Stonewall Riots
   
   
Gay Liberation Front
 
ACT UP
   

Lesbian Herstory Archives
 

LGBT Rights Organization in the U.S.
   
    Paula Allen Gun
Paula Gunn Allen
  Antler
Antler
 
 
Ryka Aoko
 
    Gloria Anzaldúa
Gloria Anzaldúa
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden
   
   
Djuna Barnes

Kay Ulanday Barrett
   
  Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop
 
     
Richard Blanco
 
 
Robin Blaser
   
      Joe Brainard
Joe Brainard
Beth Brant
Beth Brant
 
   
  burk
Ronnie Burk
 
   
  William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
 
Tracy Chapman
   
       
Staceyann Chin
Chrystos
Chrystos
     
    Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke
 
       
      Jaime de Angulo
Jaime de Angulo
 
Stormé DeLarverie
   
       
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
     
      Mark Doty
Mark Doty
  Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan
   
  Kenward Elmslie
Kenward Elmslie

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
       
   
Rollerena Fairy Godmother
 
       
     
Karen Finley
 
Hardy Fox
   
     
Andrea Gibson
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
     
   
John Giorno
 
Jewelle Gomez
Jewelle Gomez
     
     
Judy Grahn
 
Marilyn Hacker
   
    Peter Hale
Peter Hale
 
Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill
   
     
Holly Hughe
s
  Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
 
     
Saeed Jone
s

June Jordan
       
     
Lilith Latini
 
  Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
     
      Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell
Claude Mc Kay
Claude McKay
     
      James Merrill
James Merrill
  Edna St. Vincent  Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
   
      Cherrie Moraga
Cherrie Moraga

Pauli Murray
   
     
  Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles
 
   
Ifti Nasim
   
  Lesléa Newman
Lesléa Newman
Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara
   
     
     
Mary Oliver
     
  Peter Orlovsky
Peter Orlovsky
 
     

Trace Peterson
   
    Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy

Tommy Pico
   
   
Jeff Poniewaz
Jeff Poniewaz
 
    Minnie Bruce Pratt
Minnie Bruce Pratt
 
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
     
  Muriel Rukeyser: FIA record
Muriel Rukeyser
 
   
Kay Ryan

Flawless Sabrina/Jack Doroshow
     
     
Assotto Saint
Assotto Saint
   
    Sapphire
Sapphire
James Schuyler
James Schuyler
     
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
Steve Silberman
Steve Silberman
     
Danez Smith
  Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
   
     
    Eddie Swayze
Eddie Swayze
   
     
Sonya Renee Taylor
 
Michelle Tea
   
   
Alice B. Toklas
 
       

Ocean Vuong
   
Alok Vaid-Menon
   
Tyler Vile
   
       
  Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
   
      Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde