LISTEN TO QUEER POETRY
On this page, you will find audio recordings of all the poems featured on the blog, plus a few extra. Click on a poem title to listen. Click on the author's name to read their story. Do come back again: this list is growing weekly!
With love & gratitude to all the kind, generous donors who supported York LGBT Forum in August 2020. This is for you:
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From "we all nourish truth with our tongues" by Dorothy Allison (read by BA; read transcript)
For Rich: Countée Cullen, "She of the Dancing Feet Sings" (read by BA; read transcript)
For Michaela: Andrea Gibson, "Living Proof" (performed by Andrea Gibson with subtitles)
For Anonymous: Andrea Jenkins, "Calling for the recognition of self-love as a legitimate relationship in the game of life" (read by BA; read transcript)
For Paul: Adrienne Rich, "Cartographies of Silence" (read by BA; read transcript)
For Ann: Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Living in a Postcard" (read by BA; read transcript)
For Francesca: Johanna Hedva, "Little Box" (read by BA; read transcript)
For Rachel: Marianne Moore, "Poetry" (read by BA; read transcript)
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"Poem for Ann #2"​ (read by Pat Parker)
"A Small Contradiction" (read by Pat Parker)
"love isn't" (read by BA*)
"I have" (read by BA)
"From Deep Within" (read by BA)
"gente" (read by BA)
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"where skin breaks" (read by BA)
"June 15th, a fragment" (read by BA)
"notes toward dropping out" (read by BA)
"Phoenicia =/= Lebanon" (read by BA)
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*BA is the site author: Boriana "Bobby" Alexandrova.