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.

 

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