
Love Is for All of Us
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Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon, these compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love-romantic, family, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The poems are gathered from a diverse group of contemporary writers, both part of and allied with the LGBTQIA+ community, with a special focus on queer, nonbinary, and transgender poets.
Contributors include Andrea Gibson, Ellen Bass, Nikita Gill, Mark Doty, Audre Lorde, Richard Blanco, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Danez Smith, Joy Ladin, Carl Phillips, Li-Young Lee, and many others. Brief essays called "Stories of Becoming" act as touchstones throughout the book, telling the inspiring and touching stories of LGBTQIA+ people whose experiences may bring hope to others.
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How Poems Love, Foreword by Richard Blanco
The Countless Faces of Love, Introduction by James Crews
James Crews, Married to Amazement
Ellen Bass, Sleeping with You
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, She Ties My Bow Tie
Julie Cummings, Why Pour Water on Us at Night?
Kelli Russell Agodon, The Secret Is That the World Loves You
Carol Potter, Migration
Paul Tran, Enlightenment
Timothy Liu, On a Hill at Night in a Chair under Stars
Tyler Mortensen-Hayes, Open
Ada Limon, On a Pink Moon
Carl Phillips, Just the Wind for a Sound, Softly
Beck Anson, Softly
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Love,
Christen Careaga, Intimacy
Anya Kirshbaum, Watching the Bees in the Asters with Grace
STORIES OF BECOMING: Tending, by Kai Coggin
Lisa Breger, In the Middle of Our Lives
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Sweet, Sweet
Danez Smith, king the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow
Grant Chemidlin, The Boy & The Blue Bird
Joan Larkin, Breathing You In
T-M Baird, Good Morning
Caroline Harkins, Golden Hour
Maya Stein, what to love when you're running out of things to love
Donna Hilbert, The Wait
Jennifer L. Abod, Because
M.J. Arcangelini, Goodbye Kiss
AE Hines, Red-Eye Out of Atlanta
Rob Linne, Flight Paths
Alison Prine, Coming Out
STORIES OF BECOMING: Waving, by Astrid Newenhouse
Jenny George, Tin Bucket
Dorianne Laux, Enough Music
Michael Blumenthal, Small Love Poem
Audre Lorde, Love Poem
Joy Harjo, Fall Song
Alex Dimitrov, Darling
Barbara Crooker, Reel
Patrick Ramsay, Bonneville Bathtub
James Crews, Ordinary Evening
Brad Peacock, Look Deeper
Emma Wynn, On C Block
AE Hines, Some Quiet Evenings
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, There Should Be Flowers
Mark Doty, Apparition
Richard Blanco, My Father, My Hands
Jason O'Toole, Father's Day
STORIES OF BECOMING: Dear Son, by Jason O'Toole
James Crews, Telling My Father
Jess Bouchard, DiAnna
Rage Hezekiah, Evidence
Michael Simms, Sun Star
Alix Klingenberg, Quantum Love
Joy Ladin, In the Beginning
Nikita Gill, A Reminder from the Stars
Omotara James, Body Image
Anne Kinsey, Dearest Child
Stephanie Burt, Prayer for Werewolves
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking
Kyle Jamieson, I Need a Poem
Margaret DeRitter, Wedding Cathedral
Shawn Aveningo Sanders, I Wish I Could Hug Her
Seth Pennington, White Oak
David B. Prather, Weekend Eternity
Rudy Francisco, The Peace Lily
STORIES OF BECOMING: How to Talk About It, 2016, by Patrick Ramsay
Aby Ray, Groundwork
Brennan Staffieri, Thirst
Yvonne Zipter, Naiad
Carling McManus, Laundry
Naomi Shihab Nye, So Much Happiness
Michael Simms, More
Katy Luxem, Worship
Anna Lucia Deloia, My Favorite Love Poems
Moudi Sbeiti, Anniversary
Linda Hogan, Recuerdo
Paula Gordon Lepp, Patchwork
Annette Langlois Grunseth, Milkweed
Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Summering in Wildwood, NJ
Jacob Horowitz, TIme Travel
Emilie Lygren, How I wanted to be beautiful
STORIES OF BECOMING: A Self Discovered, A Self Created, by Andres Larios Brown
James Crews, The World Loves You Back
Jacqueline Suskin, Heart Rock
Alegria Barclay, Mending
Kimberly Blaeser, Missives
Elisabeth Crago, At Chautauqua Lake with My Granddaughter
Nikita Gill, Abundance
Jarod K. Anderson, Woodland You
Li-Young Lee, One Heart
Rita Dove, Heart to Heart
STORIES OF BECOMING: Dear Daughter, by Annette Langlois Grunseth
Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Heart
January Gill O'Neil, Be Mine
Brad Peacock, Pockets of Joy
Mark Nepo, My Love
Laura Foley, The Something
Jessica E. Pierce, I want to make you tea
Bianca Amira Zanella, Ginger Tea
Laura Ward, Winter Becomes Us
Hollin Bahn, Tentative Grace
Nathan Spoon, Ask Me Later
Visveshwar Elango, For Us
Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems (Poem III)
Kai Coggin, Earnestly, I Ask
Joy Ladin, Past Perfect
Phillip Watts Brown, Neighbors
Alison Prine, Far North
Kyla Jamieson, My Sexual Orientation Is Spring
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Isn't Every Love Poem an Unfinished Love Poem?
Andrea Gibson, First Love
STORIES OF BECOMING: The Door, by Justin Marsh
Jacqueline Suskin, To Love a Woman
Kenya Boes, Girl Crush
Eben E.B. Bein, The source
Annette Langlois Grunseth, Wings
Emilie Lygren, Chrysalis
Alex Grayson Ripley, Emergence
Padraig O Tuama, The Facts of Life
Andrea Gibson, Instead of Depression
Cameron Awkward-Rich, Cento Between the Ending and the End
Now Is Our Time, Epilogue by Brad Peacock
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