Linguistic Lineage: No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled Daniel T. O'Brien Reviews November 12, 2022 3 min readLinguistic Lineage in No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa famously wrote about an abundance of borders—linguistic, cultural, “physical”—that cause rifts and...
A Look Back: 9 Queer & Trans BIPOC Chaps from 2021 Muriel Leung Features April 6, 2022 7 min readA roundup of selected QTBIPOC chapbooks published in 2021, featuring poems about diaspora, language, queerness, and more. Read More
May We Present… Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué’s Madness Willem Finn Harling Interviews March 31, 2022 9 min readWelcome to May We Present…, a column from Lambda Literary that highlights writers with recent or forthcoming publications. This March, we’re...
The Mutable Fungal Fantasias of Amanda Monti’s Mycelial Person  Kamikaze Jones Reviews March 16, 2022 5 min readIf you’ve ever encountered them in the wild, you would know that Amanda Monti has a speaking voice that can...
May We Present… Nefertiti Asanti’s fist of wind Willem Finn Harling Interviews November 5, 2021 6 min readWelcome to May We Present…, a column from Lambda Literary that highlights authors with recent or forthcoming publications. This November, we’re...
Radiance on The Other Side of Struggle: Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier Urayoán Noel Reviews August 26, 2021 7 min readEmanuel Xavier is an icon of queer New York. Since the 1990s, his groundbreaking poetry and performance has animated his...
“I’ve already said too much”: Sylvia Byrne Pollack’s Risking It and the Power of Poetic Compression Julie Marie Wade Reviews June 3, 2021 4 min readA student asks why the typical call for poetry manuscripts is 48-64 pages, while the typical call for prose manuscripts—memoirs,...
Permanent Volta by Rosie Stockton: the Queer Poems of Intimacy We’ve all Needed July Westhale Reviews June 3, 2021 2 min readAnd here they are: the queer poems of intimacy we’ve all needed—even if we didn’t realize we needed them. Rosie...
May We Present… Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us, The Swarm Willem Finn Harling Interviews May 29, 2021 7 min readWelcome to May We Present…, a column from Lambda Literary that highlights authors with recent or forthcoming publications. This May,...
Shoreditch Celebrates Gay Artifice and Dramatic History Walter Holland Reviews April 28, 2021 3 min readShoreditch, the title of Miguel Murphy’s newest collection of poetry, is a brilliant if not challenging intellectual tour de force....