Poetry Archives

October 9, 2013 8 min read

My Poems Won’t Change the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual Edition) is an unmitigated, extensive collection of complex and...

‘Annotated Glass’ by Alyse Knorr

Jory Mickelson

Poetry Reviews

October 3, 2013 2 min read

Alice emerges from the poems of Annotated Glass as the goddess Athena must have from Zeus’ head—after enormous pressure and...

‘Metaphysical Dog’ by Frank Bidart

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

September 24, 2013 3 min read

Metaphysical Dog is a grandly, at times depressingly valedictory collection... Read More

‘Clay’ by David Groff

Tony Leuzzi

Poetry Reviews

September 16, 2013 5 min read

On June 30 2013, at the New York City Pride Parade, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) declared...

‘Fortunate Light’ by David Bergman

Christopher Soden

Poetry Reviews

September 7, 2013 2 min read

In his diminutive yet formidable collection, Fortunate Light (A Midsummer Night’s Press), David Bergman has achieved something relatively rare in...

‘Chord Box’ by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

Caitlin Mackenzie

Poetry Reviews

August 14, 2013 3 min read

It’s hard to believe Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press) is the debut collection of poems from Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers. Not...

‘Companion Grasses’ by Brian Teare

Walter Holland

Poetry Reviews

August 4, 2013 4 min read

Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses (Omnidawn Publishing) is “both field guide and autobiography, containing details of place and season as well...

‘We Come Elemental’ by Tamiko Beyer

ArielleYarwood

Poetry Reviews

July 29, 2013 3 min read

With a lean, lyrical style, Beyer asks the reader to contemplate the connection between the natural world and ourselves[...] Read More

‘Butch Geography’ by Stacey Waite

Julie R. Enszer

Poetry Reviews

July 23, 2013 4 min read

Let us make the sounds we were never meant to make. Let us curse. Let us drive. Let us grill...

‘Marcel Proust: The Collected Poems’ by Marcel Proust

Steven Cordova

Poetry

July 16, 2013 4 min read

Anyone who takes on Marcel Proust: The Collected Poems (Penguin Books) would do well to understand certain approaches to Proust’s...

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

Matthew Gallaway: On His New Novel and Finding a Different Kind of Faith

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

‘My Poems Won’t Change the World’ by Patrizia Cavalli

‘Annotated Glass’ by Alyse Knorr

‘Metaphysical Dog’ by Frank Bidart

‘Clay’ by David Groff

‘Fortunate Light’ by David Bergman

‘Chord Box’ by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

‘Companion Grasses’ by Brian Teare

‘We Come Elemental’ by Tamiko Beyer

‘Butch Geography’ by Stacey Waite

‘Marcel Proust: The Collected Poems’ by Marcel Proust

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