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beholdingslut:

i’ve got a wlw poetry tag but i’ll link you to a few of my fave authors / poems. i think an important thing to remember is that if you know they’re a wlw poet, then even if they don’t use pronouns in the poem, it’s likely a poem about wlw.

• lydia havens, “girl is the warmest colour,” “my angel, flung out of space” 
  
• agooduniverse, “holy girls”
  
• a. davida jane, “luck is a funny thing” 
• h. yenna kim, “my lover’s in love w/ sylvia plath”
  
• darshana suresh, “for girls who like girls”
• s. mardon, “end of the world // with you”
• trista mateer, “untitled”
• natalie wee, “natural”
• r.i.d., “the invisibles”
  
• m.c.p., “girls meets girl”
• annelyse gelman, “love poem”
• mary oliver, “wild geese”
• carol ann duffy, “miles away”
• june jordan, “one minus one”
• becky birtha, “poem for flight”
  
• edna st. vincent millay, “witch wife”
• audre lorde, “movement song”
• cherríe moraga, “loving in the war years”
• minnie bruce pratt, “we say we love each other”
  
• ada limón, “day of song, day of silence”
• extracts of sappho, translated by anne carson