Poetry Archives

May 21, 2015 3 min read

In short, lush lines on expansive subjects, Melissa Studdard deftly guides her debut poetry collection, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, through cycles of time, space and emotion. Read More

‘Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color’: Issue Two Representatives

Christopher Soto

News

May 9, 2015 5 min read

Nepantla is setting up representatives to ensure that all members of the QTPOC community have access to the journal Read More

‘The Devastation’ by Melissa Buzzeo

Theodosia Henney

Fiction Poetry

May 7, 2015 2 min read

The Devastation opens on the scene of two lovers at the bottom of the ocean, the 'Devastation' having swept away their language and identities. The text that follows strives to give form to such an existence Read More

‘Erebus’ by Jane Summer and ‘Fanny Says’ by Nickole Brown

Julie R. Enszer

Poetry Reviews

May 3, 2015 5 min read

Two recent collections express documentary impulses in contemporary poetry Read More

‘Last Psalm at Sea Level’ by Meg Day

Douglas Ray

Poetry Reviews

March 31, 2015 3 min read

Reading Meg Day’s stunning debut, Last Psalm at Sea Level , is to embrace the confluence of multiple identities in indeterminate spaces. Read More

‘Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014’ by Marilyn Hacker

Julie R. Enszer

Poetry Reviews

March 25, 2015 9 min read

A Stranger’s Mirror demonstrates Hacker’s continued formal mastery; she effortlessly spins one sonnet into two, then three, then seven, leaving readers always breathless for more. Read More

“Too bright/ is the heaven I’m after”: A Review of Celeste Gainey’s ‘The Gaffer’

Julie Marie Wade

Poetry Reviews

March 17, 2015 6 min read

Celeste Gainey’s debut collection, The Gaffer, is a triumph of nouns—of people, places, things, and ideas presented to us in the most trenchant and timely ways. Read More

‘[insert] boy’ by Danez Smith

H. Melt

Poetry Reviews

March 4, 2015 2 min read

Danez Smith’s writing is not safe. How can one’s writing be safe when their life is constantly in danger? Read More

‘Tweaky Village’ by Kevin Killian

Brent Calderwood

Poetry Reviews

February 24, 2015 3 min read

Tweaky Village takes scrambled bits of pop culture, light, and color, and reassembles them into flickering lines that create, ultimately, a cohesive, captivating picture Read More

‘The God of Longing’ by Brent Calderwood

Christopher Soden

Poetry Reviews

February 11, 2015 3 min read

Understated, ironic and occasionally playful, Brent Calderwood's poems in The God of Longing are vivid and calm 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 Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast’ by Melissa Studdard

‘Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color’: Issue Two Representatives

‘The Devastation’ by Melissa Buzzeo

‘Erebus’ by Jane Summer and ‘Fanny Says’ by Nickole Brown

‘Last Psalm at Sea Level’ by Meg Day

‘Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014’ by Marilyn Hacker

“Too bright/ is the heaven I’m after”: A Review of Celeste Gainey’s ‘The Gaffer’

‘[insert] boy’ by Danez Smith

‘Tweaky Village’ by Kevin Killian

‘The God of Longing’ by Brent Calderwood

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