Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride

by Andrea Jenkins (Editor), John Medeiros (Editor), Lisa Marie Brimmer (Editor)

Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota's most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country.
In this volume, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins and facilitator Lisa Marie Brimmer present the finest poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces by the presenters. Their work, generated and performed in a powerful space of understanding, explores the material of life without internal or external censorship. Living, loving, working, learning, playing, reflecting, knowing, inventing, and being —these magnificent queer voices affirm the importance of civil literacy and the power of vulnerability.
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, Cole Bauer, Ryan Berg, Stephani Maari Booker, Lisa Marie Brimmer, Kimberly J. Brown, Nate Cannon, Anthony Ceballos, Stephanie Chrismon, James Cihlar, Venus de Mars, Jay Owen Eisenberg, Kelly Frankenberg, Ben French, Julie Gard, Christina Glendenning, Rachel Gold, Molly Beth Griffin, CM Harris, Andrea Jenkins, Kristin Johnson, Bronson Lemer, Raymond Luczak, Catherine Lundoff, Josina Manu Maltzman, John Medeiros, Nasreen Mohamed, Michael Kiesow Moore, Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Gary Eldon Peter, Junauda Petrus, Trina Porte, William Reichard, katie robinson, Dua Saleh, Lucas Scheelk, Erin Sharkey, Christine Stark, Vanessa Taylor, Bradford Tice, Ann Tweedy, Morgan Grayce Willow, S. Yarberry, Ariel Zitny

Genres: Poetry, LGBT, Memoir, Essays, Queer, Nonfiction, Short Stories

288 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2019

Reviews

[Stephani]

My poems "Mango" and "Wavelengths" are in this book.

[Griffin Wold]

3.5 stars

Like any anthology of works, I liked some of the pieces better than others. Overall, it was a good collection, but it seemed to be lacking some cohesion. I wish the editors would have been more intentional with the organization of the pieces (they are just in alphabetical order by author's last name) in order to make it flow better and show WHY each piece had been included.

[Emma Pattock]

I enjoyed this collection of queer Minnesota writers, especially the variety of genres, topics, and authors. No two pieces/authors were exactly the same, and I particularly enjoyed the more autobiographical pieces. It makes me feel more connected to the queer community and less alone knowing that there are other queer Minnesota writers.

[Arielle W]

Good collection with a variety of pieces from Minnesota authors--short stories, mini-essays, poetry. Some of them were beautiful, some were funny, some were sad. Some of the pieces are stronger than others, but overall good collection.

[Sara]

A really nice, varied collection of Minnesota voices. There is a ton of beautiful work in this collection.

[Charles McCaffrey]

Beautiful, funny & sad. A nice collection with a variety of pieces (short stories, mini-essays & poetry). Some of the pieces are stronger than others, but overall a good collection.

[Zoë Chatterton]

I read this book in 2022 and was just re-reading it. I absolutely adore this book. So many amazing stories from a variety of authors.

[Space Twink]

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[Maren]

Kinda hard to rate collections like this, just giving it a 3 based on liking most of it :-)

[Stephani]

My poems "Mango" and "Wavelengths" are in this book.