Poetry Archives

“We inhabit the brutal. We are shattered every day./ We look askew”: A Review of Dawn Lundy Martin’s ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’

January 31, 2015 7 min read

One of the many things I admire about Dawn Lundy Martin’s poetry is her potent ability to puzzle the reader without losing the reader Read More

‘Death & Disaster Series’ by Lonely Christopher

Jameson Fitzpatrick

Poetry Reviews

January 21, 2015 6 min read

Christopher’s debut refuses to flatten anything; in his tumbling, often single-stanza poems, reality is allowed its full difficulty, pain, and ugliness. Read More

‘The Erotic Postulate’ by Matthew Hittinger

Tony Leuzzi

Poetry Reviews

January 1, 2015 4 min read

Throughout The Erotic Postulate, the politics of “coming together” are explored with a ruthless clarity that is neither cynical nor sentimental. Read More

‘Trespass’ by Thomas Dooley

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

December 22, 2014 3 min read

Dooley has a particular heartbreaking family story to relate, of children abused, of the traumatized adults who find themselves in closets both metaphorical and literal Read More

‘A History of the Unmarried’ by Stephen S. Mills

Thomas March

Poetry Reviews

December 9, 2014 3 min read

Many of the most compelling poems in the collection examine the liberties—sexual, intellectual, and imaginative—that intimacy can actually encourage, not just withstand. Read More

“What if I risk/Taking the head of death/Here in the dark, far/And deep”: Jericho Brown Adds Risky, Prophetic Poems to His Evolving, Elegiac Canon

Julie Marie Wade

Poetry Reviews

December 3, 2014 7 min read

Julie Marie Wade on Jericho Brown's latest poetry collection The New Testament Read More

‘Blue Horses’ by Mary Oliver

Isaiah Vianese

Poetry Reviews

November 12, 2014 3 min read

Continuing an artistic renaissance that began with A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver’s latest poetry collection, Blue Horses, finds her exploring a new home and rediscovering love. Read More

‘Make Love to Rage’ by Morgan Robyn Collado

Mitch Kellaway

Features Poetry

October 21, 2014 2 min read

Rage / Making / Love. Trans, working-class, femme Columbian-Puerto Rican poet Morgan Robyn Collado splits her debut collection, Make Love...

‘Blue Hanuman’ by Joan Larkin

July Westhale

Poetry Reviews

October 15, 2014 2 min read

“for I am a dirty bird/no wire cage can save” -Joan Larkin, “Chicken” Joan Larkin has been praised extensively for...

‘A Several World’ by Brian Blanchfield

Tony Leuzzi

Poetry Reviews

September 23, 2014 4 min read

"Unlike many master verse stylists, Blanchfield is bursting with things to say, and in ways that have not been said before. As a result, A Several World is a challenging, baffling, wonderful book." 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

“We inhabit the brutal. We are shattered every day./ We look askew”: A Review of Dawn Lundy Martin’s ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’

‘Death & Disaster Series’ by Lonely Christopher

‘The Erotic Postulate’ by Matthew Hittinger

‘Trespass’ by Thomas Dooley

‘A History of the Unmarried’ by Stephen S. Mills

“What if I risk/Taking the head of death/Here in the dark, far/And deep”: Jericho Brown Adds Risky, Prophetic Poems to His Evolving, Elegiac Canon

‘Blue Horses’ by Mary Oliver

‘Make Love to Rage’ by Morgan Robyn Collado

‘Blue Hanuman’ by Joan Larkin

‘A Several World’ by Brian Blanchfield

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