9 LGBT Poets To Know And Love

From: NewNowNext

5.

 Eileen Myles 

(b. 1949)

Moving from Boston to New York in 1974 to “be a poet,” Eileen Myles has since staked her claim as one of the most prolific and compelling poets writing today. Her verse, spanning over twenty volumes of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, is electric in its immediacy, and often focuses on her relationships with women.

Myles has been the recipient of countless awards and fellowships, notably the Lambda Book award (in 1995, 1998 and 2011), which honors and celebrates LGBTQ focused work and art.

From “Dear Andrea”

I love you too

don’t fuck up my hair

I can’t believe

you almost

fisted me

today.

That was great.