Continuing the theme of this year\u2019s LGBT+ History Month: \u2018Body, Mind, Spirit.\u2019 To celebrate and recognize this, the School of English\u2019s Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing has put together a list of poems available online\u2014written by LGBT+ poets\u2014that explore and reflect these themes. <\/p>\n
Orchard<\/em><\/a> by H.D, an American poet and 20th<\/sup> century LGBT feminist icon (she\/her), is a poem about finding spirituality in nature; specifically, in the overpowering beauty of fruit trees.<\/p>\n \u201cyou have flayed us \/ with your blossoms, \/ spare us the beauty \/\u00a0 of fruit trees\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Glitter in My Wounds<\/em><\/a> by American poet CAConrad (they\/them) is a beautiful and excoriating poem about queer precarity and survival; a refusal of heterosexual culture that homogenizes queer experience and commits violence against queer bodies.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>to know glitter on a queer is not to dazzle but to \/ unsettle the <\/em>foundation of this murderous culture \/ defiant weeds smashing <\/em>up through cement\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n (After God Herself)<\/em><\/a> by Black trans poet Justice Ameer (xe) interrogates and reworks the biblical story of Adam and Eve and its gendered implications. It is a poem about self-actualization and about the ways in which gender is enforced upon the body.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>the fall of man was an apple \/ hacked up from a fruitless body \/ <\/em>a woman learning what evil was \/ like a man forcing his name <\/em>upon you\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Batter My Heart, Transgender\u2019d God<\/em><\/a> by Deaf genderqueer poet Meg Day (she\/her) is a sonnet of prayer and worship reconceptualized; a poem that reimagines God as a reflection of transgendered self; a God that resists the heteropatriarchal imagination.<\/p>\n \u201cYou, O duo, O twin, whose likeness is kind: unwind my confidence<\/em> \/ & noose it <\/em>round your fist so I might know you in vivid impermanence.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Visit the previous instalments: ‘Body<\/a>‘ and ‘Mind<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuing the theme of this year\u2019s LGBT+ History Month: \u2018Body, Mind, Spirit.\u2019 To celebrate and recognize this, the School of English\u2019s Centre for Gender, Sexuality … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74034,"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21640,230630,124,26567],"tags":[22926,1225,239862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}