Queer nature : a poetry anthology / edited by Michael Walsh.

Wilderness of Flesh / Tory Adkisson -- What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around / Kaveh Akbar -- The River's Address / Kazim Ali -- Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins / Paula Gunn Allen -- A Vegetarian Goes to H Mart / Ally Ang -- Enskyment / Antler -- Encountering the Medusa / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Atrophied Prescript: / Aaron Apps -- Asleep You Become a Continent / Francisco Aragón -- Farmer's Almanac / Brent Armendinger -- Godzilla's Lament / Jubi Arriola- Headley -- Late Echo / John Ashbery -- We're Standing on the Sun / Derrick Austin -- Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion / Ruth Awad -- The Little Girl Is Busy Asking Questions about Desire / Cameron Awkward- Rich -- Inventory / Rick Barot -- The Dyke with No Name Thinks about Landscape / Judith Barrington -- Ground State / Samiya Bashir -- Kissing after Illness / Ellen Bass -- Prairie Dogs / Robin Becker -- Poet Wrestling with Why the Heart Feels So Bad / Rosebud Ben- Oni -- Outing, Iowa / Oliver Baez Bendorf -- Pastoral for Effective Teaching / Lillian- Yvonne Bertram -- Creatures of Hurt and Heal / Tamiko Beyer -- Song for the Rainy Season / Elizabeth Bishop -- Break Me To Prove I Am Unbroken / Sophie Cabot Black -- Burning in the Rain / Richard Blanco -- Swimming Hole / Sam Bonosevich -- Regarding the Absent Heat of Your Skin on Letters I Receive While at Sea / Elizabeth Bradfield -- Unruly / Jari Bradley -- in the cut / Julian Talamantez Brolaski -- Fast / Olga Broumas -- Lion / Jericho Brown -- Self- Portrait as Land Snail / Nickole Brown -- Hurricane Lyric / Matthew Burgess -- Home / Tara Shea Burke -- Hermit Crab / Stephanie Burt -- For the Feral Splendor That Remains / CAConrad -- Who Holds the Stag's Head Gets to Speak / Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- What I Would Give / Rafael Campo -- On Harvesting Oneself / Kayleb Rae Candrilli -- The Hummingbird / Cyrus Cassells -- Drown / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo -- Lesson of Bread / Jerah Chadwick -- Post Op / Judith Chalmer -- XXIV. / Jos Charles -- Elegy to Be Exhaled at Dusk / Chen Chen -- Dear O / Ching- In Chen -- Magnified / Justin Chin -- Wildlife / Franny Choi -- Desire as Blue Fog / Chrystos -- Twin Cities / James Cihlar -- [this the forest] / Cody- Rose Clevidence -- The Rock / Henri Cole -- Welcome to the Fall / Flower Conroy -- (An Orchid) / S. Brook Corfman -- To a Straight Man / Eduardo C. Corral -- Voyages / Hart Crane -- First Date, Hawk Mountain / James Crews -- Youth Sings a Song of Rosebud / Countee Cullen -- Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home / Meg Day -- The Art of Butterflying / tatiana de la tierra -- These Hands, If Not Gods / Natalie Diaz -- Archaeopteryx / William Dickey -- Could I but ride indefinite / Emily Dickinson -- Wood and Rain / Melvin Dixon -- The Basilisk / Lynn Domina -- Deep Lane / Mark Doty -- Going Home / Qwo- Li Driskill -- Conception Myth / Cheryl Dumesnil -- Sonnet / Alice Moore Dunbar- Nelson -- Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow / Robert Duncan -- Pervert / Julie R. Enszer -- Settling In / Jenny Factor -- Sex / Nikky Finney -- once a marine biologist told me octopuses have three hearts / Denice Frohman -- Ode to the Corpse Flower / Benjamin Garcia -- In Transit / R.J. Gibson -- Sunflower Sutra / Allen Ginsberg -- All at Sea / Sarah Giragosian -- pedicles, or this is where / Matty Layne Glasgow -- The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods / Rigoberto González -- You Form / Rae Gouirand -- A Migration / Jan- Henry Gray -- Heaven and Earth / Miriam Bird Greenberg -- A Kingdom of Longing / Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Not Children / Benjamin S. Grossberg -- Words for Some Ash / Thom Gunn -- Queerodactyl / Roy G. Guzmán -- The Sheltered Garden / H.D. -- Untitled / Marilyn Hacker -- The Valley of the Amazons / Eloise Klein Healy -- The Kiss / Christopher Hennessy -- Bottle Gentian / KateLynn Hibbard -- Shadows, Saddle Canyon / Jane Hilberry -- Grafted / Matthew Hittinger -- Idyll / Richie Hofmann -- Demand / Langston Hughes -- Tenor / Luther Hughes -- Elementary Departures / Christina Hutchins -- Primer / Jessica Jacobs -- A Stranger Asks Where I Am From / Charles Jensen -- Mesquites / Joe Jiménez -- Late Bloom / Jenny Johnson -- To a Strayed Cat / Stephen Jonas -- Golden Egg / Ever Jones -- Drag / Saeed Jones -- Letter to the Local Police / June Jordan -- purple / Britteney Black Rose Kapri -- Love Poem: Chimera / Donika Kelly -- Young Male / Maurice Kenny -- Conservation & Rehabilitation / Alyse Knorr -- Sweet Briar / Melissa Kwasny -- A Little Bit of Ocean / Joy Ladin -- Perianth / Gerrit Lansing -- Breathing You In / Joan Larkin -- Self- Portrait with Scoliosis (II) / Travis Chi Wing Lau -- A Southern Wind / Rickey Laurentiis -- Amphibians / Joseph O. Legaspi -- Love Two Times / Muriel Leung -- Thunder Cake / Mel Michelle Lewis -- I Came / Timothy Liu -- poem to my boyfriend's human immunodeficiency virus / Chip Livingston -- Coal / Audre Lorde -- Falling, Falling, Then Rain, Then Snow / Su Smallen Love -- Grotesque / Amy Lowell -- Viscous / Ed Madden -- [Dear one, the sea . . . ] / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Dove Season / Michael Martella -- The Way the World Comes Back / Janet McAdams -- My Sideshow / J. D. McClatchy -- Coming Out in the Ozarks / Anne Haven McDonnell -- Know My Soul / Claude McKay -- Dear Canaries / Kevin McLellan -- América / Sarah María Medina -- For Two Lovers in the Year 2075 in the Canadian Woods / William Meredith -- The Lovers / James Merrill -- Sonnet IV / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Eating a Mountain / Deborah Miranda -- Hemispheres / Susanna J. Mishler -- The Complete Tracker / Rajiv Mohabir -- Shared Plight / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Real Curvature / Rachel Moritz -- Hawk like a Steeple / Alicia Mountain -- He Says, Oyster / Miguel Murphy -- [I always put my pussy] / Eileen Myles -- For the Era of Extraordinary Weather / Jim Nawrocki -- Changeling / Hieu Minh Nguyen -- To You / Frank O'Hara -- On Trans / Miller Oberman -- Wild Geese / Mary Oliver -- Three times on the trail, I looked back for you / Kate Partridge -- Toward / Juliet Patterson -- Thrush / Gerry Gomez Pearlberg -- Radiance versus Ordinary Light / Carl Phillips -- Nature Poem with a Compulsive Attraction to the Shark / Xan Phillips -- Migration / Carol Potter -- Landscape with Lymphatic System, System of Rivulets, System of Rivers / D. A. Powell -- Burning Water / Minnie Bruce Pratt -- Lost Season / Alison Prine -- Livestock / Khalisa Rae -- Backyard Rock / Jacques J. Rancourt -- Gerard Manley Hopkins Drafts the Light / Varun Ravindran -- Head of the Gorgon / Justin Phillip Reed -- uncoil / Rita Mae Reese -- Horses in Snow / William Reichard -- Memory as Missionary Position / No'u Revilla -- heart of the bell / heidi andrea restrepo rhodes -- Diving into the Wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Backflash: Hinge / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers -- Hero Worship / Dakota R. Rottino-Garilli -- How a Thought Thinks / Kay Ryan -- Fairy Tale / Sam Sax -- Await / James Schuyler -- Many Things Are True / Ruth L. Schwartz -- Woman Circling Lake / Maureen Seaton -- Unbearable White / Charif Shanahan -- I'm Over the Moon / Brenda Shaughnessy -- Geology of Water / Reginald Shepherd -- Boy with Flowers / Ely Shipley -- November 19, 2016 / Cedar Sigo -- Lovesong of the Square Root of Negative One / Richard Siken -- Love Letter to a Dead Body / Jake Skeets -- What's Required / Aaron Smith -- alternate names for black boys / Danez Smith -- Closing the Gay Bar outside Gas City / Bruce Snider -- Queer Earth / Jess X. Snow -- The Joshua Tree // Submits Her Name Change / Christopher Soto -- For Mac / Jack Spicer -- Lifting Belly (II) / Gertrude Stein -- Tonawanda Swamps / James Thomas Stevens -- Visiting the Natural History Museum with the Son I Don't Yet Have / Will Stockton -- The Exchange / May Swenson -- Estuary / Lehua M. Taitano -- Little Errand / Brian Teare -- Field Song / Amber Flora Thomas -- The War with the Dandelions / Bradford Tice -- Garden / Eric Tran -- the aftermath of what / Arianne True -- Beast Meridian / Vanessa Angélica Villarreal -- Instructions for Opening up the Heart / Irene Villaseñor -- Torso of Air / Ocean Vuong -- Butch Geography / Stacey Waite -- A Natural History of Gay Love / Michael Walsh -- The Third Measure Paused & Set to Your Breathing / Michael Wasson -- El Beso / Angelina Weld- Grimke -- Iowa / Valerie Wetlaufer -- Tail / Arisa White -- Skin Movers / James L. White -- Parable / Jim Whiteside -- Juneberry / Amie Whittemore -- This Compost / Walt Whitman -- A Poem for Trapped Things / John Wieners -- blackbody / Candace Williams -- First Words / Phillip B. Williams -- Root Sutra / Morgan Grayce Willow -- Turing's Theories Regarding Homosexuality / Tobias Wray -- The Trick / Mark Wunderlich -- The Kiss / Yanyi -- The Gods among Us / C. Dale Young -- Flora and Fauna / Amanda Yskamp.

"This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world."--Publisher description.