Museum of American Poetics Exhibits

The Sexuals

These exhibits suggest the intense diversity of American experimentation among gay, lesbian, transexual, and Queer Nation poet-heralds writing of comradeship, sisterhood, sexual openness, and homoerotica.

 

  Paula Allen Gun
Paula Gunn Allen
 
  Jaime de Angulo
Jaime de Angulo
Antler
Antler
     
    W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden
 
      Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop
  Joe Brainard
Joe Brainard
   
  William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
     
  Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan
   
  Kenward Elmslie
Kenward Elmslie
Allen Ginsberg: an interview
Allen Ginsberg:
an interview
     
    Peter Hale
Peter Hale
 
Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill
   
  Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
 
      Chris Ide
Chris Ide
  Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
     
      Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell
Claude Mc Kay
Claude McKay
     
  Edna St. Vincent  Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
   
      Cherrie Moraga
Cherrie Moraga
  Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles
"My Intergeneration"
 
  Lesléa Newman
Lesléa Newman
Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara
   
  Peter Orlovsky
Peter Orlovsky
 
    Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy
Jeff Poniewaz
Jeff Poniewaz
 
    Minnie Bruce Pratt
Minnie Bruce Pratt
 
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
     
  Muriel Rukeyser: FIA record
Muriel Rukeyser
 
    Sapphire
Sapphire
James Schuyler
James Schuyler
     
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
  Steve Silberman
Steve Silberman
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
and
Alice B. Toklas
  Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
   
        Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
  Stonewall Riots
Stonewall Riots