1 25 49 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Oliver Brickman is a queer Jewish writer and performer invested in liberatory futures and reckoning with ghosts. The winner of the Split This Rock Poetry Prize, they have also received support from Hedgebrook, the Lambda Literary Foundation, The Yiddish Book Center, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and The Bloedel Reserve. Recent work has appeared in Narrative, Adroit, The Indiana Review, On the Boards' Performance Lab, and in the anthology Ghosts of Seattle Past. Oliver holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and lives in Seattle, where they work in a library, take care of 150 houseplants, and teach writing to youth and adults. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/747">At 15, I Tell My Mother I am Going To the Queer-Straight Alliance Sleepover</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oliver Brickman, they/them Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: gay Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/c60591b440b654e1a00a4bbb596d46c0.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=H91zVCF-xVZnlrUoKCEk0xCWgqyRvWhAvEFMp%7Ep3opUWMLxa7i710zhelFCHt33HjdP7EYAVDHeR%7EfEEhJrz2CVWomRDhJjoG3gb-ExsXL%7Ec5SYr4k-tu%7EU2OQnXbr%7EuD9nsPsZyAeoi02EBIC-SsZCx%7E7u-qtjUhI6Wt9QLX8s4kx%7E2kFJXxnMW%7E0XIY9mjkU78KumDVlHzstHPesxHwXSfVTay8JBTXBMNE7IegjDP8uevlZD-1TfyCFWiYNK68TiS-5dYgMGR4-5iRUyBO9R%7ERYILfGqLkD9-Fn1ZPzbdFHkIHWWCL5kg3CGTVuG-NrAzHSpZL2XH2hy1uUUgDg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 18d3c292f919b74ce300d009cf340f55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/748">Oliver Brickman, they/them</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. lack of acceptance swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource At 15, I Tell My Mother I am Going To the Queer-Straight Alliance Sleepover Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Oliver Brickman, they/them Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: gay Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Content Notice: lack of acceptance Content Notice: swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. arien wolf is a poet whose work examines trauma, queer identification, and transformation through fragmented forms and experimental approaches. their chapbook, FEAR of F***ing MEN, explores masculinity, relational trauma, and how memory and identity shape the ways we understand ourselves and others. arien’s poetry reflects a commitment to instability—of language, identity, and desire—while pushing the boundaries of poetic form. this is their first publication, and they are currently applying to MFA programs to continue developing their craft. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/708">they watch me like i run</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource arien wolf, they/them Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document they watch me like i run lining up the little green houses you run with me you there and me crashing alongside there you are how can you be here i wish i was there want to be beyond the meadows are poppies like organs, and her eyes where the meadow breeds bright with crystallized life smooth as glass i close my eyes and i see her close her eyes and she sees you. have you ever seen something so round? such unknowable round round like or yet like round or rather yet round like no other round can i speak now? i am an organ that breathes, and through breathing come closer and closer to speech —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/709" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">arien wolf, they/them</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource they watch me like i run Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource arien wolf, they/them Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Logan is a community organizer and social worker based in Seattle WA. They write about the liminality of queer existence and those little sparks of joy found in the murk. Their work has appeared in the University of Washington's Black Student Journal. More poetry can be found on their Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wilsonsolomonlogan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@wilsonsolomonlogan</a>. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/697">Delta</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/698">An Ode to the Train Reflection</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Logan Wilson Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document It’s a long ride to love, I’m not sure it ever ends, The stations blur by, disappearing as fast they came, Each one separate, and desperate, in their aims, And they are desolate, all the same. Some stations glow a bright stoplight red, Others are as black as an oil train, Others radiate a dazzling lilac light, that completely commands my pain, But they are desolate, all the same. I’ve gotten off at all these stations, Some more than I should, I’ve stood at the crack, With bated breath, Shivering, Itching, As the iron doors scream open, A gateway to futures I cannot tame, And they are desolate, all the same. The light dances through the double-paned window, Projecting evidence of life onto a callous concrete landscape, And I look for it. But the future sprouts out of the Earth it maims, And it is desolate, all the same. As the train slows down I hear it, Deep down, I know I fear it, That lonesome, loathsome, mournful song, drifting through my soul, The warmth I seek, lies with the singer or so I hope, There’s no going faster than fate’s lazy lope. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/699" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Logan Wilson</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Ode to the Train Reflection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Logan Wilson Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document All I want is another moment, of us breaking bread under the retiring sun our laughs vaulting us above the clouds letting us think of nothing but the warmth of an amber sunset and the whistling winds All I want is another moment, where I can annoy you and laugh knowing your love for me is stronger than my flaws All I want is another moment, where I bask in the gleam of your eye as your passion overflows in your words I miss you. I want you back. Racism robbed me of your love and for what? for what? —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/699" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Logan Wilson</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delta Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Logan Wilson Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Content Notice: grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Anya Kirshbaum is a bi/queer poet and somatic therapist living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has appeared in SWWIM, The Comstock Review, Cirque, MER-Mom Egg Review, Crannóg and Solstice Literary Magazine, among others. She was a finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, was nominated for the 2024 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and was the recipient of the 2023 Banyan Poetry Prize. She is at work on her first collection. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/686">Oranges and Other Flowers</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anya Kirshbaum (she/her) Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Femme Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: parent Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Marigold, she says, paint your room that color— your eyes shut against sun the color inside your eyelids. Paint your walls that way— maple leaves after summer, Sandia Mountains at dusk, watermelon, tangerine. Paint the quiet that way— Madrona lit before sunrise, a shade millimeters from sleep. Close your eyes, she says, look! Paint me that way, bright, she says, salmon pinks and oranges, outline my face, my hands held out— My fingertips—poppies, black-eyed susans, and spiced pumpkins. My hands held out— cantaloupe and honeyed wine. Paint me dangerously, cloaks of Pele, washed in flame. Cover me in skins of winter fruit— mandarin, kukuzi, blood orange. Paint me persimmons sticky and sweet in your mouth. Let it all in, she says, the flesh, the rust of it. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/687" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anya Kirshbaum (she/her)</a> Previously published in The Comstock Review. Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oranges and Other Flowers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anya Kirshbaum (she/her) Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Femme Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: parent Author Tag: queer Content Notice: sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Blue sky and cool grass, yet the beautiful day is tinged with melancholy. And my body prepares for the grief that hasn’t started yet. Winding up the path of your gaze, scrutinizing every infinitesimal detail, I know you’ve given up on me. And I am left to keep a remnant of you while blinded by the desert dust of lament. However, like a child to their tattered old blanket, I must learn to live without you, and let go of both the kindness and cruelty you’ve given me. It’s not just because of you. It never has, and never will. The sun patches that peek through the tree branches, and the murmur of nearby conversation remind me of how alien I am. But the drought in my heart will eventually pass. And the gentle rain will fall on me, the memory of joy and beauty fresh in my mind. Life offers pain in the shape of beautiful gifts, but either way, I’m grateful for how its prismatic hues color my mind. And I will still live as a soft and hopeful creature of summer whispers and mourning doves. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/374" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Melanie Steier aka "Mielnah" (she/her)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Heart Trails Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Melanie Steier aka "Mielnah" (she/her) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Femme Author Tag: Hispanic or Latine/o/a/x Author Tag: immigrant Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Content Notice: grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document It all started during a vacation from marriage. Not mine—Lucy Ricardo’s. Naturally, Ethel takes a hiatus from her husband too, and Lucy moves in with —though not in on— her gal pal. But all hope is not lost, least of all when Lucy lets loose with this loaded remark: I hope you boys are going to have as gay an evening as we are. (You know, they really were pioneer women, those two, what with all the accidental advocating they did for marriage equality.) Okay, so maybe that remark really wasn’t so gay, given the time period in which it was uttered, but I chose to take it the right way: as permission to define, refine, and redefine my sexuality. I could do more than identify as a member of the LGBT community. I could ident-defy: as Liberated, Grateful, Bodacious, and Tenacious. Seeing this revelation as cause for celebration, I went singin’ in the rainbow that I prefer dolls to guys. Mama said there’ll be gays like this: those who embrace their sexuality straight away, not only because they’ve figured out that the bloom is off the heteros; but also because, in the words of midcentury chanteuse Dinah Washington, What a diff’rence a gay makes or, you know, something a little more fifties-friendly like: I love lezzie and she loves me Queer as happy as two can be… —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/557" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Allison Fradkin (she/her)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource I Love Lezzie Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Allison Fradkin Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I may be hard-of-hearing but I’ve got pride coming out of my ears. That doesn’t mean communi-gay-tion is always easy though. I read lips, you read lipstick. Let’s hear it for the boy? Here we go again. I’ll sing a different tune, thank you. In fact, I’ll tune you out. Now don’t tympanic— it’s no great hearing loss. On the advice of Nellie Forbush, I went and washed that man right out of my hair and eardrummed him out of my dreams. Sorry to hear that? That’s neither here nor there. And now I think I’ll turn off my listening ears, remove the cool-aid from the cups, and hear what I want to hear— something laudable, not audible. Because here’s the deal: I’m hear -ing impaired, I’m queer, get… Well, you’ve heard all this already. Now hear this: from here on out, let’s be all ears, not all fears; let’s differentiate, not differenti-hate. If you don’t, you’ll never hear the end of it. Oh, you heard me loud and queer? Good. Glad to hear it. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/557" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Allison Fradkin (she/her)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hear Me Out Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Allison Fradkin Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Allison Fradkin (she/her) has a gay old time creating poetry, prose, and plays that (sur)pass the Bechdel Test. She has contributed to My Galvanized Friend, The MockingOwl Roost, Eggplant Emoji, The Queer Gaze, Vita & the Woolf, Snowflake Magazine, Gnashing Teeth, Sweet Tea Literary Magazine, Quill & Echo, Pastel Serenity, and Spray Paint Magazine; as well as the collections Flash Dances: 100 Little Queer Stories (Paradise Press), Storytellers' True Stories about Family (Chicago Story Press), Frozen Women/Flowing Thoughts (Palmetto Press), Yay! All Queer Anthology (Inkd Publishing), and Sapphic Eclectic (Butterworth Books). Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/558" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hear Me Out</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/559" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I Love Lezzie</a></li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allison Fradkin (she/her) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document the coral forest ghosted in sagas. in ghosted forest coral, the graveyard’s brittle twists level, twists brittle. graveyard’s ancient phalanges. rotator phalanges. ancient cracking bone spines wilting & deified & wilting, spines bone cracking. dotted pockets, oxygen. dewed oxygen pockets dotted petrified mollusks, empty husks rise sexes. rise husks empty mollusks. petrified in stasis. wet sediment. rotor sediment, wet stasis. in oceanic grave’s salty devived. salty grave’s oceanic cacophony, slowing in noon. in slowing cacophony, the minuscule, the sea rat; thriving, it stots. it. thriving rat, sea the miniscule. the stretching muscle’s fibrous steets. fibrous muscle’s stretching silicone anole, the corpus severed, de-revered severed corpus, anole. silicone flowing through graves. fin’s wispy alula, wispy fin’s graves through flowing specters. specter’s bioluminescent organs. tilt-lit organs, bioluminescent. specter’s specters. teeth gashing flesh made the blue redder. blue the made flesh. gashing teeth calibrating deteriorating coccyx. the reviver. the coccyx deteriorating, calibrating blast radius, metal screams from oil spewing radar. oil spewing from metal, screams radius blast, liquifying mammals marine brains in qubit stats, qubit in brains. marine mammals liquifying swimming calves, obliterating milk rubbery teet, rubbery milk obliterating calves, swimming, liquifying. mammals marine brains. in qubit. stats qubit in brains marine. mammals liquifying. blast radius: metal screams from oil, spewing radar oil, spewing from metal screams radius blast calibrating deteriorating. coccyx the reviver. the coccyx deteriorating. calibrating teeth gashing, flesh made. the blue: redder blue. the made flesh gashing teeth. specter’s specters bioluminescent. organs tilt-lit organs, bioluminescent specters. specters flowing through graves, fins. wispy alula, wispy fins, graves. through flowing silicone: anole the corpus. severed. de-revered. severed. corpus: anole, silicone, stretching muscles fibrous steets. fibrous muscles stretching the minuscule. the sea rat thriving, it stots it. thriving rat sea, the miniscule. the cacophony slowing. in noon, in slowing, cacophony oceanic, graves salty, devived salty, graves oceanic in stasis. wet sediment rotor. sediment wet, stasis in petrified mollusks, empty husks rise, sexes rise. husks empty, mollusks petrified. dotted pockets oxygen dewed. oxygen pockets dotted cracking bone spines. wilting & deified. & wilting spines bone cracking ancient phalanges. rotator phalanges ancient graveyards. brittle twists level. twists brittle graveyards: the coral forest ghosted in sagas. in ghosted forest coral. the </> —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/514" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">phoenix kai (they/them)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. visceral body imagery violent imagery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <deepsea> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource phoenix kai Author Tag: activist Author Tag: gay Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transfemme Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Content Notice: violent imagery Content Notice: visceral body imagery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. phoenix kai (they/them) is a queer poet, writer, and multimedia artist located on the unceded Indigenous lands of the Coast Salish peoples in Seattle, WA. their work has appeared in the Henry Art Gallery Interpretive Guide, Silly Goose Press, Beyond Queer Words, and elsewhere. phoenix was a 2024 Husky 100 and received their MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from UW Bothell. they are currently fascinated by speculative futures, quantum physics, queer belonging, and mythological retellings. In their spare time they enjoy reading, playing games, and watching cartoons. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/515" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><deepsea></a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource phoenix kai (they/them) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: gay Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transfemme Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document the night beckons to us, we find the dark hues and crisp to our liking-- but what we find we have been taught to succumb to with limp wrist. divine feminine and they taught you to be a lady-- to never directly say "no"-- but one must do all one can to avoid the bear traps that are laid out which are said to be inevitable. this moon silken time of planetary shift lays open and expansive-- we wish to reclaim the opportunities that lay in the blanketing shadow. but within what you want to hold proudly-- you are token, you are prize and wolves are always waiting in the forestry. it is yours but you were never taught that it was yours-- between the passivity they deemed as your virtue and the sharpened claws that you will always be blamed for if touched by-- the night intrigues, but one must be cautious of where they are desired but not welcome. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/477" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Isis Zystrid</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. sexual assault Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wolves Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Isis Zystrid Author Tag: activist Author Tag: American Indigenous/Alaska Native Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Content Notice: sexual assault Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Isis Zystrid is a poet who lives in Shoreline with her husband and cat Ferbert Pythagoras. When she's not doing mutual aid work or writing, she also enjoys underwater basket weaving. She can be reached at poetryplantsatree@gmail.com or on her Facebook and Instagram pages. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/478" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wolves</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Isis Zystrid Author Tag: activist Author Tag: American Indigenous/Alaska Native Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I used to do panels sitting in front of a room full of strangers introduced as queers to university students some staring at us in fear as though their teacher had just said today’s guest speakers are murderers or aliens from another planet we’d reassure them we don’t bite, unless you ask and we like you ask us anything if it’s too personal or inappropriate we might not answer, but go ahead and ask back when we were more rare on tv we were the faces the first time many of them knew they were in the same room as a queer privacy is a luxury of privilege and we were opening up to such scrutiny to try to prove our humanity for maybe future equal rights or at least so the next queer they met would have it easier they’d ask about our coming out our dating and sex lives, our families and especially our parents occasionally convinced they’d figured out why we were gay, they hadn’t sometimes they’d ask why not try harder to be straight or if we could take a magic pill to change perplexed and confused by our answer, no even with the prejudice, discrimination, hate it was hard to explain but I wouldn’t want to be different than I am the world should be different, not me as a child some places would make me sick sounds could strike and hurt sometimes even a person talking normally was so loud and painful I’d wince other noises I wouldn’t notice at all most light is fine, but a few kinds are brutal one store in particular was wrong I’d feel wrong and it was terrifying and no one cared, brushing it off telling me I was fine, to stop complaining until I started screaming this store is killing me, we have to leave I tried too hard to be normal, to fit in for years until I realized the impossibility normal people don’t have to work that hard at it the best I could do is fake it and that was exhausting I was asked why I was so weird what was wrong with me and I never understood why didn’t see the connection among all my bizarre random quirks finally vindicated well into adulthood when I was diagnosed autistic my mother apologized for not believing me about certain stores hurting me and I apologized for being an absolute nightmare to pack a school lunch for but I wouldn’t want to change my brain trade it for a typical one, not now I can’t explain it as different, odd, sometimes difficult that it is I wouldn’t want to be different than I am the world should change, not me the most incredulous and passionate argument I’ve had about not wanting to change a different part of me was about with my physical disability which granted sometimes it frustrates me and causes me physical pain but I would not have lived my life been the person I am without this my path, experiences, perspective how I move through life how I move through each day shaped by something from which I can’t separate and it’s one I really don’t know how to explain but I wouldn’t want to give up being me the challenge and creativity of so many workarounds why “fix” another kind of existence when the world could change to be more welcoming These are a few of my parts a few of the ones that don’t fit what others have wanted me to be a source of dissonance, frustration being out of place maybe without one place for all I am but it feels so simple to me hearing the why can’t you refrain I remember those moments the confused, perplexed faces and not being able to explain but just saying it, no I wouldn’t want to change this for an easier life but the world should change it shouldn’t be so hard to accept us —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/415">Deborah Chava Singer (she/her)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. lack of acceptance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource I can't explain it, but I wouldn't change this Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deborah Chava Singer Author Tag: Autistic Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: Mental Illness Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Content Notice: lack of acceptance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Deborah Chava Singer is originally from San Diego, California where she studied with the Mesa College Drama Department and was a part of the creative writing and performance group, Queer Players. While going to school (in something else) in Toronto, Ontario she remembered her heart first belonged to the creative arts. She’s been living in Washington since 2007 and loves trees. Her writing has appeared in Disabled Voices, Papeachu Review, Stonewall’s Legacy, Chantwood Magazine, Hashtag Queer 2, The Santa Fe Literary Review, The Human Touch, Cirque, MUSE, Jonathan, Chaffin, Twisted Vine, Labletter, Off the Rocks, Rockhurst Review, Trajectory, Steam Ticket and others. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/416" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I can't explain it, but I wouldn't change this</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Southwest Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deborah Chava Singer (she/her) Author Tag: Autistic Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: Mental Illness Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document My reflection is of myself. I am created in my own image, We all share a part of God’s power. I used to be a star. My cells change with testosterone, And they will return to the Earth. I will always be here. My soul will travel from body to body, Life to life. I’ll fall in love with some of the same people. Nothing really matters, Except the experience of this body. I dream of running away sometimes. I deserve to be playful, With the time I have left. My only responsibility, Is giving myself the life I want. I would leave the country, Leaving a note for just a few people. Nobody there would know what I used to be. I want to sit with a stranger, With glasses of wine and cigarettes, Maybe on a balcony, With the moon overhead, Wet cobblestone shimmering below. I would just be a man. To everyone else at the party inside, I am just a man. It would be lonely, But I know then I’d enjoy the smell of the rain, And my heartbeat will feel like mine. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/409">Kellin Normal (he/him)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. alcohol cigarettes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ghost Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kellin Normal Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: transmasc Author Tag: white Content Notice: alcohol Content Notice: cigarettes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Kellin Normal is a queer artist and writer from the PNW. While working on his bachelors degree in anthropology, with minors in history and psychology, he was also passionate about his artwork, and had two paintings published in WSU's Landescapes journal in 2024. At the end of that same year, he graduated, and now hopes to expand his artistic skills in Western Washington. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/410" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ghost</a></li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kellin Normal (he/him) Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: transmasc Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Melanie Steier, better known under her creative alias "Mielnah" is an emerging interdisciplinary artist, performer, and writer living in the greater Seattle Area. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/684">Heart Trails</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melanie Steier aka "Mielnah" (she/her) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Femme Author Tag: Hispanic or Latine/o/a/x Author Tag: immigrant Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. 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Text Any textual data included in the document I remember you as you are Brown hips, wide eyes and crooked eyes One eye bigger than the other Nose slanted towards the gods begging a flower to bloom Small hands , clasping around the mortar and pestle Arms made for grinding crunchy brown beans A sweet aroma coating the room of unspoken heritage I spend most of my days days - alone and brown Alone and brown in the streets that reek of gentrification and half smoked cigarettes I dream of the day I can rest in your arms In the belly of the quetzal I won’t hear white people's words - it will only be silent Silence will coat our home together Our home alone in the hills of glory In the land that hurts, that cries, that stimulates A land that evokes our deepest sympathies Only to be thrown back into the cycle of grief We will have stray cats and dogs and a parrot that is free to fly amongst the ceiba trees Just you and I brown And alone together —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/290">El Kravit-Smith</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. cigarettes grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Remembering You Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource El Kravit-Smith Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Hispanic or Latine/o/a/x Author Tag: indigenous Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: queer Content Notice: cigarettes Content Notice: grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. The poets name is El. She is a queer, Indigenous Guatemalan woman. She was adopted when she was three months old by two women who she is proud to call her family. She started writing poetry in remembrance of her family back home in Guatemala when she visited for the second time. She also writes poetry as a way to connect with lost parts of herself since she has spent her whole life feeling stuck between two worlds, and this is a way to explore all that it encases. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/291" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Remembering You</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource El Kravit-Smith Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Hispanic or Latine/o/a/x Author Tag: indigenous Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Lost in the night, Like an endless fight I lost my ability to sleep. Scared of the boogeyman, Scared of my sheets. While you sped-run in your own way, Careless through the night, We shared our own secret language. You learned how to read, While I learned how to fight Together we knew, What was truly in sight. You gave me back courage, strength, and love. Told me to never forget the above. While you knew what was coming in quick, You realized that there was much more at stake. No more running, no more hiding You and I were all we ever needed. For we are thriving. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/241">Katarina Abbott</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chapter 43 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Katarina Abbott Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent