List_of_poets_portraying_sexual_relations_between_women Knowpia

This is a list of poets portraying sexual relations between women, who may include both lesbians and other WSW. The major poetic works depicting relationship among women are shown next to the respective poet's name in italics.

Notably, the word "lesbian" derives from Lesbos, due to the description of female homosexual love prominently featured in the poetry of Sappho of Lesbos.

Poets and their works edit

Adrienne Rich – Twenty-one Love Poems; Dream of a Common Language
Amy Lowell – Picture of the Floating World; Two Speak Together
Anna de Noailles – Love Poem; Book of My Life
Audre Lorde – Cables to Rage, Martha
Becky Birtha – The Forbidden Poems
Carol Ann Duffy – Feminine Gospels; Love Poems
Cherríe Moraga – La Guera
Chrystos – In Her I Am
Edna St Vincent Millay – Women Have Loved Before as I Love Now; What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
Eileen Myles – Sappho's Boat; Irony of the Leash
Elizabeth Bishop – North and South
Ellen Bass – Mules of Love
Gertrude Stein – Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) – Hymen
Jane Eaton Hamilton – Body Rain; Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes
Judy Grahn – She Who; Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling
Kamala Das – The Descendants
Kay Ryan – Erratic Facts
Marilyn Hacker – Hang Glider's Daughter; Love, Death and Changing Seasons
Mary Dorcey – Noise from the Woodshed
Mary Oliver – Thirst; Night Traveler; Sleeping in the Forest
May Swenson – Another Animal
Mercedes de Acosta – Moods; Streets and Shadows; Archways of Life
Michael Field – Works and Days (love diary); Poems of Adoration
Michelle Tea – Rent Girl; Rose of No Man's Land; Passionate Mistake and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
Monique Wittig – Women Warriors (a novel)
Natalie Clifford Barney – Other Alliances; Indiscreet Souvenirs
Nella Nobili – Les femmes et l'amour homosexuel
Otep Shamaya – Little Sins
Pat Parker – Child of Myself
Renée Vivien – A Woman Appeared to Me
Rita Mae Brown – Songs to a Handsome Woman; Venus Envy
Robin Becker – All American Girl
Sappho – Ode to Aphrodite
Sarah Pinder – Cutting Room
Sophia Parnok – Roses of Pieria
Tapan Kumar Pradhan – Three Women in One
Taslima Nasrin – Game of the Girls; Hunger in the Roots

Lesbian periodicals, journals and literary magazines edit

See List of lesbian periodicals

History and criticism edit

Lesbianism in Germany: 1890s to 1920s. Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson.
Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668–1801. Emma Donoghue
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. Lillian Faderman
Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, ed. Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow, New York University Press 1990
The Literature of Lesbianism, ed. Terry Castle, Columbia University Press 2003