Corinne Manning on Queer Desire, Assimilation, Couplings, and Hats Jennifer Natalya Fink Features May 27, 2020 4 min readHow do power, assimilation, desire, and resistance play out in queer relationships? Corinne Manning’s debut short story collection, We Had...
Michael Arceneaux on Writing about Economic Anxiety Nahshon Dion Interviews May 12, 2020 4 min readMichael Arceneaux is a funny man. He is some sort of literary alchemist, transmuting personal lead into hilarious gold. With his...
Alia Volz on Her Personal History with Marijuana & the LGBTQ Community K.M. Soehnlein Interviews May 10, 2020 6 min readRemember when “edible” was an adjective and not a noun? When selling pot could get someone sentenced as severely as...
Cyrus Cassells on Navigating Loss and Cultivating Beauty Christopher Bakka Interviews April 30, 2020 5 min readCyrus Cassells won the 1981 National Poetry Series for his first book, The Mud Actor, as well as the 1997...
Hazel Jane Plante on Writing a Weird Queer Book Cooper Lee Bombardier Interviews April 12, 2020 12 min readOf the sixty-three books I read in 2019, none were like Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) [a 2020 Lambda Literary...
New Queer Literature: A Conversation with Peculiar, a Queer Literary Journal Alyssa Greene Interviews March 31, 2020 4 min readSpotlight on New Queer Literature is a monthly series highlighting publications that are LGBTQIA owned, promote queer and trans writers,...
Dean Kostos on Stopping Mental Health Stigma Larissa Shmailo Interviews March 24, 2020 9 min readDean Kostos, poet and educator, anthologist and curator of Greek and Greek-American poetry, editor of the the self-knowing Mama’s Boy. Dean’s...
Cameron Esposito on Loving Her Younger Goofy Self Alex Tunney Interviews March 22, 2020 6 min readCameron Esposito was going to find a microphone one way or another. While her original plan was being at the...
Lidia Yuknavitch on Creating Impossible Questions Adam Swanson Interviews March 6, 2020 8 min read"My whole artistic practice is inventing questions for myself that are impossible, and if it’s too easy, I’ll quit." Read More
A Conversation with Alan Pelaez Lopez: A Poet of Queer Liberation Marrion Johnson Interviews March 3, 2020 12 min readWhat is so incredible about Alan’s writing, is the life they are able to breathe into poems that cover vitally important topics Read More