Poetry Archives

October 12, 2015 1 min read

There is infrequently anything as marvelous as being taken with a writer to a place in a whirlwind—to be rushed through streets, through lives, through interactions, through memory Read More

‘War of the Foxes’ by Richard Siken

Sam Huber

Poetry Reviews

September 24, 2015 4 min read

If pressed, I could not name the boys or recite our favorite passages, but I feel certain that Richard Siken’s...

Read Now! The Second Issue of ‘Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color’

Christopher Soto

News Poetry

September 9, 2015 1 min read

Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color aims to preserve diversity within the queer poetry community Read More

‘Baltimore: A Love Letter’ by Dane Figueroa Edidi

Cat Fitzpatrick

Poetry

August 18, 2015 3 min read

The book develops and deploys a sophisticated analysis of structural oppression, through the related categories of racism, exploitation, colonialism and transphobia, and of the ways this plays out as personal experience Read More

“All Losses Are the Same” But Every Rediscovery of a Lesbian Poet Gives Us New Life

Julie R. Enszer

Poetry Reviews

July 28, 2015 3 min read

Catherine Breese Davis’ poems are taut and formal, with close attention to the power of compressed language Read More

‘The Spectral Wilderness’ by Oliver Bendorf

Douglas Ray

Poetry Reviews

July 15, 2015 3 min read

The Spectral Wilderness is full of beautiful little bodies, written into being (into becoming) by a maker from whom we’ll continue to be amazed and enchanted. Read More

‘This Life Now’ by Michael Broder

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

July 2, 2015 3 min read

“The past is a foreign country,” wrote novelist L. P. Hartley in 1953’s The Go-Between. “They do things differently there.”...

‘The Conversation’ by Judith Barrington and ‘Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes’ by Jane Eaton Hamilton

Julie R. Enszer

Poetry Reviews

June 25, 2015 3 min read

Together, The Conversation and Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes demonstrate some of the vibrancy of contemporary lesbian poetry. Read More

Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall: On the Queer Aspects of Hip Hop

Candice Iloh

Interviews Poetry Reviews

June 14, 2015 8 min read

"I think the reality of hip hop is that women and queer people and a lot of folks who we think about being in the margins have always been at the center of the culture." Read More

“I want no ending,” and Neither Will You: ‘Chord’ as Continuation and Expansion of Rick Barot’s Exceptional Canon

Julie Marie Wade

Poetry Reviews

May 31, 2015 10 min read

The poems are sensuously complex, perhaps the most complex of Barot’s canon Read More

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

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

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

‘I Must Be Living Twice’ by Eileen Myles

‘War of the Foxes’ by Richard Siken

Read Now! The Second Issue of ‘Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color’

‘Baltimore: A Love Letter’ by Dane Figueroa Edidi

“All Losses Are the Same” But Every Rediscovery of a Lesbian Poet Gives Us New Life

‘The Spectral Wilderness’ by Oliver Bendorf

‘This Life Now’ by Michael Broder

‘The Conversation’ by Judith Barrington and ‘Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes’ by Jane Eaton Hamilton

Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall: On the Queer Aspects of Hip Hop

“I want no ending,” and Neither Will You: ‘Chord’ as Continuation and Expansion of Rick Barot’s Exceptional Canon

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