A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

Andrea Gibson poem quotes revisited as fans honor the beloved poet and queer activist following their passing at 49.

Ben wrote his final poem in October of 2024. He never posted it because he took a fall in the garage and broke his wrist, ...

Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their ...

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

Readers and fans of Andrea Gibson’s work offered an outpouring of love, grief and touching tributes Monday about how the poet ...

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The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique contribution to modern literature.

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...