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May 13, 2020 1 min read

Lambda Literary is pleased to announce that Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha has been named the winner of the 2020 Jeanne Córdova...

Michael Arceneaux on Writing about Economic Anxiety

Nahshon Dion

Interviews

May 12, 2020 4 min read

Michael Arceneaux is a funny man. He is some sort of literary alchemist, transmuting personal lead into hilarious gold. With his...

Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of May 2020

Marrion Johnson

Features

May 7, 2020 10 min read

We’re nearly two months into quarantine and most of us are itching for a change. After binging all of the...

Reflections from Philanthropist and Writer Chuck Forester

Chuck Forester

Features

May 7, 2020 4 min read

I read every book in Wausau Wisconsin’s Carnegie Children’s library and I played around with boys but I didn’t believe...

Bespoke for Lambda Literary! A Reading Fundraiser to #SaveLambdaLiterary

Edit Team

Features

April 29, 2020 1 min read

The Bespoke reading series is holding an all-star fundraiser to support Lambda Literary! Join us on May 6, 2020 at...

Watch This! Poems of Personhood and Protest

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Features

April 29, 2020 3 min read

Lambda Literary, Poetry Project, and Zoeglossia are proud to present a series of dynamic digital performances titled Poetry & Protest....

Grappling with the Complexities of Murder, Crime, and Community

Edit Team

Opinion

April 28, 2020 7 min read

The following is excerpted from The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, the nonfiction debut...

Poetry Doesn’t Merely Recapitulate Experience, It Creates Experience

Aaron Shurin

Features

April 27, 2020 6 min read

"It’s a gift of art that poetry doesn’t merely recapitulate experience, it creates experience." Read More

Writer and Teacher Hache Carrillo, 60, has Died

Edit Team

Remembrances

April 23, 2020 1 min read

Editor’s note: The Washington Post is reporting that a large swath of Hache Carrillo’s biography was fabricated. The obit below...

Vittoria Repetto, a Welcoming Presence on the NYC Poetry Scene, Has Died

Sarah Sarai

Remembrances

April 20, 2020 1 min read

New York based poet Vittoria Repetto was who she was, a “guinea butch dyke,” pretty much throughout her life (1951-2020). She...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform’ edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Wins 2020 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction

Michael Arceneaux on Writing about Economic Anxiety

Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of May 2020

Reflections from Philanthropist and Writer Chuck Forester

Bespoke for Lambda Literary! A Reading Fundraiser to #SaveLambdaLiterary

Watch This! Poems of Personhood and Protest

Grappling with the Complexities of Murder, Crime, and Community

Poetry Doesn’t Merely Recapitulate Experience, It Creates Experience

Writer and Teacher Hache Carrillo, 60, has Died

Vittoria Repetto, a Welcoming Presence on the NYC Poetry Scene, Has Died

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta