An extremely blurry photo of a Haitian-Canadian woman reading at a microphone. The words "l'enfant more assassine - MArie-Celie Agnant" appear in white text in the upper-left corner of the image.

A very blurry photo of Sanita Fejzic - a Bosniak lesbian in jeans and a red sweater, whose hair is very short - reading at a music stand. The words "...small and silent as a mouse / grade eleven / a girl throws me into a garbage bin..." (Sanita Fejzic) appear, in white text in the upper-left corner of the image.

Our two live readers at VERSeFest x Riverbed:
Marie-Célie Agnant (L)
Sanita Fejzić (R)

#VERSeFest2026 #ottpoetry #ottpoets #queerpoets #HaitianPoets #ottawa #ottawaevents

A petite queer Bosnian woman with very short hair, reads poetry at a music stand. She's wearing jeans and a red sweater. Lines from the poem she's reading - "small and silent as a mouse // grade eleven // a girl throws me into a garbage bin" ~ Sanita Fejzic - have been added, in white text, in the upper-left corner of this very blurry photo.

A photo from the very, very back of the room - thense the horrible blurriness - while Sanita Fejzić reads from her book, "Refugee Mouth", at VERSeFest x Riverbed.

#VERSeFest2026 #ottpoetry #ottpoets #queerpoets #ottawa #ottawaevents

I have written three poems this month about the state of things and my mental health. This does not bode well for the rest of the year. #poetry #queerpoets #mentalhealthmatters

Editor’s royalties from WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT help fund the Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize, which is currently open. No submission fee. $500 prize for the winner. See @soflopojo.bsky.social for submission details.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #lgbtqia #queerpoets #writers #poets

We're still #crowdfunding for Up//Roar Poems of Queer Resistance ... but ALSO we've reopened the submissions for about 10 days as we've had suprisingly few submissions from #globalmajority #queerpoets so we are trying again. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit deadline 26thNov tell your friends!

Reaching through stories of survivorship to touch on personal and collective pain with tension, nuance and care, Lisa Baird’s poems remind us that grief is inextricably intertwined with love and joy.
https://bit.ly/3DNesb7

#CanLit #QueerPoets #booksky @eramosageese.bsky.social

some claim in the near future half of the people on the planet will be AI… … okay then but surely a person is someone who breathes who sings who grieves Profits upon Profits upon Profits! A person is a coded program to never think for itself. Whose purpose is to only run statistics and regurgitate the most plausible string of words no matter what is asked of it. How innovative!

Excerpt from my unreleased poem "definition of a 21st century person"

a conversation, inspired from a week and a half or so ago of seeing someone claim AI are people

and that conversation keeps on going

they are not

period

#queerwriters #queerpoets

The 2025 @lambdaliterary.org Awards are one week from today. In fact, next Saturday is the virtual Lammy Day. Buy your ticket & enjoy events starting at 10am. I’m reading a couple of poems at 3pm as part of the Queer Poetry Panel.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #queerpoets #lgbtqia #writers

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#pervertedpoetry #pervertedpoet
#queerpoetry #queereroticpoetry #queerblackpoets
#queerpoets
#nonbinarypoets
#blacknonbinarypoets

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#pervertedpoetry #pervertedpoet
#queerpoetry #queereroticpoetry #queerblackpoets
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We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance.
call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...
pls share with any #queerpoets you know
@hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me
@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover

Black text on gradient blue-grey background reads: “Ocean View by Taryn Smith Temperamental wind Powerful but changeable Open emotion Reminiscent of my own Pain washing in with the tides”

September, back to #vss365 #power #skypoets #queerpoets #disabledpoet #chronichealthpoetry #tanka #poetrycommunity

- % Interview: John Compton Q: I am interested in a lot of the horror imagery used in your upcoming book. Imagery seems to go towards darker places within the text, both literal and figurative than in you...

Read this interview with @poetjohncompton.bsky.social about poetry poems and (un)poets! #interview #poetry #queerpoets #poetsofbluesky #litmag #writers #writing

westofcanon.com/interview-wi...

Poetry being published 9/1 in Book of Matched

New poetry coming 9/1 in Book of Matches Literary Magazine. 💙📚
#booksky #poetry #poetrycommunity #writers #poetrylovers #readingcommunity #queerwriters #queerpoets #lgbtq

bookofmatcheslitmag.com
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“WHEN WHALES WENT BACK TO THE WATER sings and pushes language with its uncanny imagery, unexpected word choices and combinations, and plays with spacing and breath.” Jenna Butler, author of Revery: A Year of Bees
https://bit.ly/3DNesb7

#CanLit #QueerPoets #debut #poetry
@eramosageese.bsky.social

Reaching through stories of survivorship to touch on personal & collective pain with tension, nuance & care, Baird’s poems in WHEN WHALES WENT BACK TO THE WATER remind us that grief is inextricably intertwined with love & joy.
https://bit.ly/3DNesb7

#CanLit #QueerPoets
@eramosageese.bsky.social

The world is a fuck, so I made a queer poets feed! Add your poems with 💛🤯and don't forget to pin and like it so that it sticks around! bsky.app/profile/did:...

#lgbtqwriters #queerpoets #WritingCommunity #BookSky #queerwriters #queer #transjoy #transgender #aroace #RepresentationMatters

what is this

they say Pride is a protest,
but are we really protesting
by drinking vodka in a tent
that’s plastered with ads
featuring the vodka company
that’s sponsoring the Pride festival?

#poetry #queer #trans #TransPoets #QueerPoets

It’s just for me,
In the end,
And for the young ones.
Others may admire or revile it,
But they can’t take away
My favorite color.
I claimed it long ago.

#poetry #poems #trans #queer #TransPoets #QueerPoets

📣 Coming 7/31! What’s Left is Tender by Travis Chi Wing Lau is a powerful collection interrogating tenderness at the intersections of disability, queerness, and race.

Stayed tuned: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...

#Poetry #IndiePublishing #QueerPoets #WhatsLeftIsTender

To match the sexy lewd I leaked earlier have an after dark poem 😈 #poetry #afterdark #swallowingstudy #chronicallyill #chronicsickie #poet #nonbinary #queer #queerpoets

“In WHEN WHALES WENT BACK TO THE WATER, Lisa Baird asks us to see the sacred in each moment. We are in this together, these poems remind us. Even solitude is a collective condition.” Alessandra Naccarrato, Imminent Domains

https://bit.ly/3DNesb7

#poetry #QueerPoets
@eramosageese.bsky.social

Queer Poet Andrea Gibson Made Me Less Afraid To Feel It All They showed us how to meet a brutal world with a tender heart

Their poems packed so much fiery, tender truth. The way they wrote about love, pain, queerness, and survival was equal parts gentle and fierce. Political without losing intimacy, intimate without losing bite.
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#LGBTQ #Poets #QueerPoets #AndreaGibson

I stopped writing because I didn't feel as though I deserved to have a voice. Now I am trying to refind my voice. Does anyone have recommendations for #queerpoets ? I'd love to read people's work

Rest in power Andrea Gibson. Ive been listening to your poetry for half my life. Thank you for giving us your words that kept so many of us alive and gave us voice and words when many of us had none. Thank you so much for everytning. #AndreaGibson #poetry #queerpoets

If you’re a queer-led project, collective, zine, or press with something brewing, or something that deserves more eyes,
DM me.

Let’s talk. Let’s build. The Broken Spine wants to platform voices that matter.

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