Status Updates From 100 Queer Poems

Standout poems in chapter: Queer Futures

• ‘Shake My Future’ by Dorothea Smartt
• ‘A Litany for Survival’ by Audre Lorde
• ‘Little Butterflies’ by Diana Bellessi
• ‘From California’ by Vikram Seth
• ‘Inishbofin: I, For Rebecca Barr’ by Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo
• ‘When winter comes’ by Jane Clarke
• ‘Final Curve’ by Langston Hughes

Standout poems in chapter: Queering Histories

• ‘The Law Concerning Mermaids’ by Kei Miller
• ‘Forfeiting My Mystique’ by Kaveh Akbar
• ‘Hiss’ by Jay Bernard

Standout poems in chapter: Queering the City

• ‘Rooms’ by Charlotte Mew
• ‘Hiraeth’ by Golnoosh Nour
• ‘Freedom’ by Alfred Celestine

Standout poems in chapter: Queer Landscapes

• ‘Two Loves’ by Lord Alfred Douglas
• ‘Reasons for Staying’ by Ocean Vuong
• ‘The Zigzag Path’ by John McCullough
• ‘May a transsexual hear a bird?’ by Harry Josephine Giles

"to this extent love is a weapon"

"queer voices cut through unsafe spaces in curves
queer voices spiral and raise with the heat of the breath carried up from the knees
queer voices hold you"