‘Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier’ by Joanne Passet
Grier’s life emerges as an interesting through line of lesbian activism in the twentieth century
‘Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas’ by Betsy Warland
I. Betsy Warland’s new book
Reading ‘Stone Butch Blues’ on the First Anniversary of Leslie Feinberg’s Death
Stone Butch Blues is a book that demands with each reading new imaginative possibilities for how to live with and revolt against sex and gender in our world
‘Uncovered: How I left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home’ by Leah Lax
Lax explores the ways in which men and women both encounter limitations in their lives through a fundamentalist religion and offers some insight into why they join.
‘Erebus’ by Jane Summer and ‘Fanny Says’ by Nickole Brown
Two recent collections express documentary impulses in contemporary poetry
‘Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014’ by Marilyn Hacker
A Stranger’s Mirror demonstrates Hacker’s continued formal mastery; she effortlessly spins one sonnet into two, then three, then seven, leaving readers always breathless for more.
‘The Evening Chorus’ by Helen Humphreys
The power of The Evening Chorus is accumulation: a plot that unfolds at a comfortable pace, characters that feel usual, even ordinary, and thus interesting in their familiarity, and exquisite sentences
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.
