Mourning Orlando, Judith Butler Profiled, Gender-Swapped ‘American Psycho’, and More LGBT News
The world reacts to the Orlando Pulse shooting, indie presses open indie bookstores, and more LGBT news…
‘How the Boy Might See It’ by Charlie Bondhus
Charlie Bondhus is haunted by
‘When I Was a Twin’ by Michael Klein
Good poets make us think; great poets make us imagine. And this is exactly what Michael Klein helps us do in his visceral, exultant, new collection of poetry and prose
A Poem by Jarrett Neal
This week, a poem by Jarrett Neal.
“Body Language” by Michael Broder
This week, a poem by Michael Broder.
‘The God of Longing’ by Brent Calderwood
Understated, ironic and occasionally playful, Brent Calderwood’s poems in The God of Longing are vivid and calm
‘The Erotic Postulate’ by Matthew Hittinger
Throughout The Erotic Postulate, the politics of “coming together” are explored with a ruthless clarity that is neither cynical nor sentimental.
‘Trespass’ by Thomas Dooley
Dooley has a particular heartbreaking family story to relate, of children abused, of the traumatized adults who find themselves in closets both metaphorical and literal
‘The Possibilities of Mud’ by Joe Jiménez
The speaker in The Possibilities
Read Jericho Brown’s Introduction to ‘Prime: Poetry & Conversation’
“For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is in no way passive.”
‘Viral’ by Suzanne Parker
How do you sleep when
‘Bend to It’ by Kevin Simmonds
“It would be redundant to ask if Simmonds plays an instrument when his voice is an instrument, a conduit of incomparable depth and range.”
‘Sacrilegion’ by L. Lamar Wilson
It’s far too easy to see an elision of religion and sacrilege in the title of L. Lamar Wilson’s bombshell of a collection, Sacrilegion (Carolina Wren Press), and thereby overlook the third member of a trinity: legion.
‘He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices’ by Stephen S. Mills
An important thematic element emerges
‘Obscenely Yours’ by Angelo Nikolopoulos
It can be hard to
Remembering Taylor Mead: Queer, Beat Poet, and Warhol Superstar
While many of Mead’s contemporaries from the Warhol days either died young or moved on to different things, Mead continued to live his eccentric and artistic life in lower Manhattan, painting, and writing poetry…
In Conversation: Mark Wunderlich & Alex Dimitrov
Poets Mark Wunderlich and Alex
‘Appetite’ by Aaron Smith
At this year’s AWP, I
‘Skin Shift’ by Matthew Hittinger
The distinctive poetic vision creates
‘Slow Lightning’ by Eduardo C. Corral
So much has already been
‘The Talking Day’ by Michael Klein
The Talking Day is a nuanced, poignant, humane and absorbing collection, making supple use of the intricacies and exquisite radiance of language.
Divisions and Connections in Queerdom: A Conversation Between Rickey Laurentiis and Darrel Alejandro Holnes
In this in-depth discussion, poets Rickey Laurentiis and Darrel Alejandro Holnes examine categorization in the NYC social scene and in queer literature today.
R. Zamora Linmark, “5/31/2012”
A new poem by R. Zamora Linmark treats us to a rainy day at the movies.
R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Rolling The R’s and Leche and three collections of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu and Manila, where he is currently working on a novel, revising a play, and completing his fourth poetry collection.
‘H’ by Jim Elledge
When Walt Whitman declared, “Through
Gay Latino Poet Richard Blanco has been Chosen as the 2013 Inaugural Poet
Poet Richard Blanco (Looking for the Gulf Motel) has been chosen to be the nation’s fifth inaugural poet. The Presidential Inaugural Committee made the official announcement Wednesday morning. Blanco is the youngest poet “— as well as the first Latino — to take part in an inaugural ceremony.”
‘Penetralia’ by Richard Foerster
“I’ve loved the dead too
‘States of Independence’ by Michael Klein and ‘The Pillow Book’ by Jee Leong Koh
Chapbooks are often a prelude,
Queer Spirituality: What Can Poetry Tell Us? A Conversation with Julie Enszer and Kevin Simmonds
Gay and lesbians have long had a complex and often conflicted relationship with organized religion, sometimes facing exclusion—or worse. But at the same time there is a long history of gay people trying to understand queerness as a divine gift or turning to spirituality to celebrate their love for each other.
21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards
LGBT Anthologies | LGBT Childrens/Young
20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
LGBT Anthology | LGBT Childrens/Young
19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
LGBT Anthology | LGBT Childrens/Young
17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION WINNER: Fresh Men: New
18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies WINNER: Freedom in this
15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Black Like Us
14th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Diva Book of
13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Men on Men
12th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Vintage Book of
11th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Columbia Anthology of
10th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: His(2) edited by
9th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Women on Women 3
8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Tasting Life Twice edited
7th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Chloe Plus Olivia edited
6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies WINNER: Lesbian and Gay Studies
