‘Leaving Paris’ by Collin Kelley
Collin Kelley has created a trio of interlocking novels that can be read in any order. Read Leaving Paris first and you’ll know the “end” of the story. Read them backwards and the characters become richer and the intricate plot lines reveal their origins
‘Call Me By My Other Name’ by Valerie Wetlaufer
This book is what happens when aesthetics and activism are yoked in the finest possible literary form
A Bisexual Boxer Biopic, Transgender Sci-Fi, and Other LGBT News
The National Book Awards, Gay theater post-marriage equality, queer comics, and other LGBT news
‘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
‘Erebus’ by Jane Summer and ‘Fanny Says’ by Nickole Brown
Two recent collections express documentary impulses in contemporary poetry
‘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.
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.”
‘Corona’ by Bushra Rehman
In her 2014 Lambda Literary
