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.”
Remembering Assotto Saint: A Fierce and Fatal Vision
“[Saint] knew he had to chronicle the black gay voices of AIDS or they would be lost. He had to collect the bits and pieces that would create a different kind of names quilt–the angry verses, the embittered stanzas, the breathy last couplets of the dying.”
‘Tiger Heron’ by Robin Becker
“Observant songs of history and elegy, these poems turn our faces to what we can do with love and language, and what we can’t.”
‘Viral’ by Suzanne Parker
How do you sleep when
Cheryl Clarke’s ‘Living as a Lesbian’: The Wherewithal to Tell It as It Is
“Clarke is a provocative poet who never asks permission to make her voice heard.”
Robin Coste Lewis, “The Mothers”
This week, two poems by Robin Coste Lewis.
Lewis is a Provost’s Fellow in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. A Cave Canem Fellow, she received her MFA from New York University’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater Fellow in poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Calalloo, and VIDA.
‘Obscenely Yours’ by Angelo Nikolopoulos
It can be hard to
In Conversation with TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson: The Troubled Line
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics is a riotous omnibus of queer poetics. The first comprehensive collection of poetry by trans and genderqueer authors, Troubling the Line offers a lyrical investigation of issues ranging “from identification and embodiment to language and activism.”
Lambda Literary recently talked to the collection’s editors about the process of editing this groundbreaking anthology.
‘Crime Against Nature’ by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Patricia Hampl says, “Autobiographical writing
