A Poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
This week, a poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
A Poem by Laura Brun
This week, a poem by Laura Brun
A Poem by Justin Phillip Reed
This week, a poem by Justin Phillip Reed
A Poem by D. Gilson
This week, a poem by D. Gilson
A Poem by Nicholas Goodly
This week, a poem by
A Poem by Lucas Crawford
This week, a poem by Lucas Crawford
A Poem by LA Warman
This week, a poem by LA Warman
A Poem by Jen Levitt
This week, a poem from Jen Levitt’s The Off-Season , out this month from Four Way Books
A Poem by Gregory Canillas
This week, a poem by Gregory Canillas
A Poem by Sophia Dahlin
This week, a poem by Sophia Dahlin
A Poem by Lawrence Kaplun
This week, a poem by Lawrence Kaplun
A Poem by Tommy Pico
This week, an excerpt from Tommy Pico’s book-length poem IRL
A Poem by Candace Williams
This week, a poem by Candace Williams
A Poem by Ezra Dan Feldman
This week, a poem by
A Poem by Lisa Summe
This week, a poem by
‘The Halo’ by C. Dale Young
In a mythic landscape populated by Greek gods, wolfish men and flightless angels, C. Dale Young’s The Halo, the poet’s fourth and latest collection, explores intersecting mandalas of memory, legend and the quest for self-actualization
‘Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything’ Edited by Andrew Durbin
With Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything, Andrew Durbin collects five individual chapbooks spanning poetic and essayistic forms, by five writers, all women: Dodie Bellamy, Cecilia Corrigan, Amy De’Ath, Lynne Tillman, and Jackie Wang
A Poem by Lisa Hiton
This week, a poem by Lisa Hiton.
A Poem by Francisco Márquez
This week, a poem by Francisco Márquez.
A Poem by Miriam Bird Greenberg
This week, a poem by Miriam Bird Greenberg.
A Poem by Nathan Blansett
This week, a poem by Nathan Blansett.
A Poem by Kamden Hilliard
This week, a poem by Kamden Hilliard.
A Poem by K.T. Billey
This week, a poem by K.T. Billey.
Two Poems by Nebeolisa Okwudili
This week, two poems by Nebeolisa Okwudili
A Poem by Tom Capelonga
This week, a poem by Tom Capelonga.
Dawn Martin Lundy: On the Power of Forgetting and Her New Collection ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’
“What I believe in is forgetting; it’s transformative, if not reformative, power. What does it mean to truly leave something behind? To excise a happening from not only your thoughts, but also from your body?”
“We inhabit the brutal. We are shattered every day./ We look askew”: A Review of Dawn Lundy Martin’s ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’
One of the many things I admire about Dawn Lundy Martin’s poetry is her potent ability to puzzle the reader without losing the reader
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.”
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.
Erin M. Bertram, “Shun Not My Arrows, & Behold My Breast”
This week, a new poem
Tory Adkisson, “First Harvest”
This week, a poem by Tory Adkisson.
Adkisson recently earned his MFA from The Ohio State University and recently has had work featured in Cave Wall, Linebreak, and 32 Poems. A Southern California native, he currently lives in Athens, where he attends the PhD program in literature and creative writing at the University of Georgia.
Poetry Spotlight: Lambda Literary Award Winners
This week, enjoy a special double-feature Spotlight with work from the winners of the two poetry categories from this year’s Lambda Literary Awards: “femmes are film stars” from Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (TSAR Publications), and “After a Line by Ted Berrigan” from A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos edited by David Trinidad (Nightboat Books).
phati’tude: The Lavender Issue, ed. by Timothy Liu
Today we’re excited to bring you The Lavender Issue of phati’tude, guest edited by Timothy Liu. This incredible collection features work by almost thirty LGBT contributors, including twenty-two poets (Eileen Myles and our own David Groff among them). Originally slated for release in summer 2010, we’re now excited to offer a complete PDF of the magazine on our site and share this issue with even more queer readers
Alex Dimitrov, “You Are The Party I Want To Go To”
This Valentine’s Day, we’re pleased to bring you Alex Dimitrov’s love poem for fellow poet Dorothea Lasky.
Dimitrov’s first book of poems, Begging for It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in early 2013. He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize for younger poets from The American Poetry Review and the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Slate, Tin House, and Boston Review.
Ely Shipley, “Night a ladder we climb to reach”
For our first Poetry Spotlight of 2012, three poems by Ely Shipley.
Shipley’s first book, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, and was a Lambda Literary finalist. His poems and lyric essays appear in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Phoebe, Greensboro Review, Barrow Street, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
‘Black Marks on White Paper’ by Michelle Antoinette Nelson (Love the Poet)
On the page, Love’s poems remind you that rhyme is the root word for rhythm. Contemporary poetry may have long shied away from the limits of rhyme, but Love’s wordplay is refreshing, executed with precision and a clear, performable quality. All of her poems have a direct relationship with their audience, relying on a rich sense of community instead of any writer-reader barrier.
‘Cow’ by Susan Hawthorne
Red cow, blue cow, black cow. A golden calf and a moon-jumping heifer. Figures that often grace pastoral landscapes or children’s books have wandered into the realm of poetry. Susan Hawthorne’s latest collection, Cow, blends the bovine figure with ancient mythologies to re-envision history for modern women.
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.
Jon L. Jensen, “Sestina Dickinson Would Never Write”
This week, four new poems by Jon L. Jensen.
Jon L. Jensen has spent the last decade in Harlem, New York, but his poetic universe has never escaped the badlands of his native Wyoming. He also works as an essayist and translator of Russian verse, holding degrees in Classics, Russian and Rhetoric. In former lives, he has worked as Mormon missionary trying to save Evangelicals in the Deep South and as a Peace Corps volunteer trying to teach HIV prevention to sex workers on the streets of Moscow. The poems included here are a part of a book-length manuscript, The Flannel Lord.
‘Circuit’ by Walter Holland
Towards the end of Walter
Greg Nicholl, “Moments Lifted”
Today we’re pleased to feature
James Cihlar, “A Conversation with My Imaginary Daughter”
A new poem this week
Andrew Demcak, “Tattoo”
Today, two poems by Andrew
L. Lamar Wilson, “In the Lion’s Den”
This week, two poems by
Toni Mirosevich, “Giveaway”
For our first Poetry Spotlight
Michael Klein, “Happiness Ruined Everything”
Kicking off this December, two
Timothy Liu, “Blind Date”
Today we’re pleased to feature
Arisa White, “out of line”
For your reading pleasure today,
Brent Goodman, “Attack of the Handsome Bad Guys”
For today’s inaugural post, two
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
