This book’s title simultaneously draws one with its high diction and keeps one at bay and the first poem, “When...
Anything That Loves (Northwest Press) points out another scientific myth many of us bought into: that sexuality is binary, and anyone between gay and straight is just confused, horny or immature. Read More
If there were such a thing as the perfect YA novel, Alex As Well (Text Publishing) would be it. Alex...
Frank Spinelli’s memoir is about suffering sexual abuse as a child; the rupture it caused within his family; and his journey to wholeness, a goal attained only after harrowing effort. Read More
Turning on the Tide (Bella) opens by getting right to the point as we get a glimpse into the mind of...
Injustice (Lethe) is set in Denver. It’s heroine, Riley Connors, has some kind of background, (unstated as to what, exactly)...
On October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on the outskirts of Laramie,...
John Stewart Wynne’s The Red Shoes, set in contemporary New York City, is a beautifully dark queer re-visioning of the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of the same title. Read More
There’s much connection and love in these poems, albeit love on the road, rear view mirror-love. Read More
Lamb often leaves his characters on a limb right before changing perspectives, and so we want to read further because of the most basic--and essential--reasons: we need to know what happens next. Read More
