Orem Library

Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In this new poetry collection, Jay details his journey through faith and baptism during an unprecedented world-wide pandemic. Jay's poetry explores belief in the modern world and offers a fresh and unique perspective on queer faith.

A literary coming-of-age poetry collection, an ode to the places we call home, and a piercingly intimate deconstruction of daughterhood, Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing. As a spoken-word poet, Jasmine Mans's collection is divided into six sections, each with a corresponding active telephone number where she has recorded excerpts...

Following the course of a little more than a year, the poems chronicle the on-again off-again process of letting go.

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde celebrates the undeniable voice of a woman who wrote, in the words of Adrienne Rich, "poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity ... a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America ... These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."

We're here. We're queer. We're fat. This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging, and established queer and trans writers from around the world. In writing that is intimate, luminous, and emotionally raw, this anthology challenges negative and damaging representations and offers readers ways to reclaim their bodies, providing stories of support, inspiration,...