List of poets portraying sexual relations between women
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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
Sappho of Lesbos
.
Poets and their works
- 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
See List of lesbian periodicals
History and criticism
- 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
Awards for lesbian literature
- Golden Crown Literary Society
- Lambda Literary Award
- Awards from the Publishing Triangle[1]
- Gaylactic Spectrum Award (GLBT science fiction, fantasy and horror)[2]
- Ferro-Grumley Literary Prize
