Early last Friday evening, friends and fans of Allen Ginsberg gathered at the Rubin Museum of Art to celebrate the digital re-release of Ginsberg's four-disc 1994 album Holy Soul Jelly Soul, co-sponsored by the Rubin, The Allen Ginsberg Estate, and Origin Magazine. Following a cocktail hour downstairs at the K2 Lounge, the crowd re-assembled on the sixth floor at the top of the museum's breathtaking spiral staircase to hear poets deliver readings of Ginsberg's extraordinary work, as well as their own poems. Read More
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Dispatch 1. Michael Cunningham didn’t take the stage right away at the Museum...
The annual Triangle Awards, recognizing excellence in gay and lesbian literature, were presented last night at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York City. Also honored were activist and literary agent Frances Goldin, winner of this year’s Leadership Award, and cartoonist Alison Bechdel, who received the 2012 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Read More
Come Out of the Woods, Christian Soldiers; World War Gay Has Ended: In this oft hilarious yet fact-ridden piece, author...
“Coming Home” to the Big Easy The 9th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was held on May 12-15 at...
“Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners’ Reading Remarks by D. A. Powell Though the delights and temptations of the flesh have...
PEN World Voices Festival Dispatch True or false? Abdellah Taïa is the first openly gay author from Morocco. Taïa adores...
PEN American Center kicked off its seventh season On the first day of the PEN World Voices Festival of International...
New Paradigms for Queer Lit The Third Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair took over the 3rd floor of the...
From Internet Meme to Published Book The initial idea for the It Gets Better Project came from a message on...
