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LGBT Pride Month is upon us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Pride Month!!! If you are looking for ways to celebrate Pride Month and poetry at the same time you have come to the right place.You can start by checking out works by these famous LGBT poets - Walt Whitman Langston Hughes James Baldwin Alice Walker Emily Dickinson Georgia Douglas Johnson Oscar Wilde  Poets.org is also celebrating LGBT Pride Month by highlighting some excellent works of poetry by the LGBTQ community.  Click the link to check it out - http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/lgbtq-poetry . Do you want to be speechless? Check out this link and read/listen to some LGBT poets whose powerful, heartfelt words about their own experiences will leave you without words - http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/8-pieces-of-lgbt-spoken-word-poetry-that-will-leave-you-spee#.tmW884r5YW . Be ready some it can be viewed as controversial. Feel free to also check out a local poetry open mic. Busboys and Poets hosts a monthly open mic - Sparkle . See details below. ...