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a list of lgbtq asian poets, both published and unpublished, plus a few of their poems I personally recommend. feel free to shoot me an ask with your own recs, or request more rec lists for asian creators
*the poets who have tumblrs have their blogs linked to their names*
Ally Ang | The Walk Home, Dictionary
Fatimah Asghar | Mother, Ways I am Tired
Janani Balasubramanian | A Love Story
Khairani Barokka | Cease and Desist
Tamiko Beyer- Sweet Branch Stitched to Bitter Tree, We Look More Like Each Other Than We Look Like Ourselves
Amrita C. | untitled, Mor
Yiwei Chai | Violets
Kristin Chang | speak american
Chen Chen | Song of the Night’s Gift
Ching-In Chen | OLIVEWOOD CEMETERY (a haibun of Riverside, California)
Jess X. Chen | Hunger Drives the Body Into Imagination, The Last Words of the Honeybees
Justin Chin | A History of Geography
Franny Choi | To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street, Beg
Alex Dang | Broken Tongues, Michael Derrick Hudson Changes His Name to Ngoc Tran
B.B.P. Hosmillo | The Habits of a Pessimist, Birthplace
Nancy Huang | google translate “how to come out of the closet”
Muriel Leung | Cry Wolf, All My Specters in a Box in Terrified Light
Ansley Moon | Visions From a Brooklyn Window, Annabelle’s Cove
Shinji Moon | What It Took to Understand, Baby Girl’s Got a Kiss Like Sparkle Sticks
Hieu Minh Nguyen | Buffet Etiquette, Mercy
Amir Rabiyah | Under the Knife
Amal Rana | the taste of freedom, lessons in decolonization from mother nature
Margaret Rhee | dear love
Christopher Rose | Maganda
Darshana Suresh | Happiness, Love with an uppercase L
Chrysanthemum Tran | Discovery (for Jennifer Laude), Behold! A Spectacle
Paul Tran | This Time, There Was No, Self-Immolation
Alok Vaid-Menon | When Brown Looks in the Mirror and Comes Out White
Ocean Vuong | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Prayer for the Newly Damned
Arati Warrier | Witch Hunt
Natalie Wee | On the Queer Girl Fantasy
Topaz Winters | Cherry Blossoms
Shelley Wong | Epithalamium, Dear Frida
Stefan | untitled, KNIVES & OTHER SHARP THINGS I’VE SWALLOWED
Sung Yim | what good
(via lifeinpoetry)
