Ocean Vuong (Contributor)
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry
collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times
bestselling novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of
the 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the winner of the
Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been
featured in Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, Nation, New Republic, New
Yorker, and the New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he
currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Audre Lorde (Contributor)
Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or,
as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'.
Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while
she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker,
ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and
arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and
gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker,
anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and
befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York
State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was
also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford
colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.
Sean Hewitt (Contributor)
Sean Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author of two poetry
collections, Tongues of Fire and Rapture's Road, and a memoir, All
Down Darkness Wide. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward
Hall on 300,000 Kisses- Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World.
Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish
Literature and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer
of the Year Award. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
June Jordan (Contributor)
June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936 and was the author of ten
books of poetry, seven collections of essays, two plays, a
libretto, a novel, a memoir, five children's books, and June
Jordan's Poetry for the People- A Revolutionary Blueprint. As a
professor at UC Berkeley, Jordan established Poetry for the People,
a program to train student teachers to teach the power of poetry
from a multicultural worldview. She was a regular columnist for The
Progressive and her articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New
York Times, Ms., Essence, and The Nation. She died of breast cancer
in 2002.
Kaveh Akbar (Contributor)
Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim
Bell, and has received honours such as a Levis Reading Prize and
multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at
Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson
and Randolph Colleges.
Jay Bernard (Contributor)
Jay Bernard is the author of the pamphlets Your Sign is Cuckoo,
Girl (Tall Lighthouse, 2008), English Breakfast (Math Paper Press,
2013) and The Red and Yellow Nothing (Ink Sweat & Tears Press,
2016), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2017. A film
programmer at BFI Flare and an archivist at Statewatch, they also
participated in 'The Complete Works II' project in 2014 and in
which they were mentored by Kei Miller. Jay was a Foyle Young Poet
of the Year in 2005 and a winner of SLAMbassadors UK spoken word
championship. In 2019 Jay was selected by Jackie Kay as one of
Britain's ten best BAME writers for the British Council and
National Centre for Writing's International Literature Showcase.
Their poems have been collected in Voice Recognition- 21 Poets for
the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009), The Salt Book of Younger Poets
(Salt, 2011), Ten- The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014) and Out of Bounds-
British Black & Asian Poets (Bloodaxe, 2014).
Langston Hughes (Contributor)
Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was a central figure of the Harlem
Renaissance and one of the most influential and acclaimed American
writers of the twentieth century. A renowned poet from a young age,
Hughes' first collection of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published
when he was just 24. He would go on to publish more than
thirty-five books, including his award-winning debut novel, Not
Without Laughter, and the short story collection, The Ways of White
Folks. His widely-read journalism and nonfiction became important
documents in the support and promotion of the civil rights
movement.
Andrew McMillan (External Editor)
Andrew McMillan's first collection, physical, was the first poetry
collection to win the Guardian First Book Award; it also won a
Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award, a Northern Writers'
Award and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second
collection, playtime, won the inaugural Polari Prize, and his most
recent collection is pandemonium. His debut novel, Pity, was
published by Canongate in 2024. McMillan is a Senior Lecturer at
the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Mary Jean Chan (External Editor)
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Fl che, which won the 2019 Costa
Poetry Award and was shortlisted in 2020 for the International
Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International
Poetry Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Seamus Heaney First
Collection Poetry Prize. In 2021, Fl che was a Lambda Literary
Award Finalist. Chan is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
(Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University. Born and raised in Hong
Kong, they currently live in Oxford.
The year's most notable anthology is 100 Queer Poems, edited by
Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan. It has at its core a generous
and expansive definition of queerness that finds room for poets
such as WH Auden, John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop, while
including modern, innovative voices such as Verity Spott and Harry
Josephine Giles. With a thematic arrangement ranging across
relationships and families, the urban and natural world, and queer
histories and futures, there is a great sense of kinship running
through the poems
*Guardian*
A diverse and gratifying new anthology of LGBTQ+ verse... this is
an abundantly rich and rewarding collection, capturing how queer
poets and their work speak to one another across generations
*attitude*
100 Queer Poems is more than a landmark volume; it offers a golden
opportunity for readers and writers to check in, refresh,
reconnect. Old favourites sit alongside emerging stars and some
surprises, gifting us with an anthology that marks the present
moment and ushers in a new one
*OKECHUKWU NZELU, author of Here Again Now*
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