poetry that speaks to experiences with HIV/AIDS across the years
“My T cells are strewn about the leaves of a mighty tree, like the hair of an old man, like the stars of a collapsing universe.”
created by aliyahmk
last updated January, 2026
The Tradition
Jericho Brown
Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS
Michael Klein
Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
Paul Monette
Harmless Medicine
Justin Chin
Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed
What the Living Do: Poems
Marie Howe
My Alexandria
Mark Doty
HIV, Mon Amour
Tory Dent
Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men
Essex Hemphill
A Fast Life: The Collected Poems
Tim Dlugos
Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
Thomas Avena
Unbound: A Book of AIDS
Aaron Shurin
The Man With Night Sweats
Thom Gunn
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
Don't Call Us Dead
Danez Smith
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