Poetry Archives

April 25, 2013 3 min read

“Wiri Wiri” is not, as one might guess, some little-known dialect. Nor is Dan Vera’s Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen Press) an...

‘Crime Against Nature’ by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Julie Marie Wade

Poetry Reviews

April 17, 2013 7 min read

Patricia Hampl says, “Autobiographical writing is bedeviled,” and she is right. The struggle to translate lived experience into art is...

‘Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies’ by Elizabeth J. Colen

Sarah Sarai

Poetry Reviews

April 9, 2013 3 min read

Elizabeth Colen’s ambitious Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies (Jaded Ibis Press) offers a cohesion of themes:...

‘Appetite’ by Aaron Smith

Julie Marie Wade

Poetry Reviews

March 26, 2013 6 min read

At this year’s AWP, I had the pleasure of reading in a four-hour, cross-genre literary marathon called Queertopia at Boston’s...

‘Skin Shift’ by Matthew Hittinger

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

March 22, 2013 4 min read

The distinctive poetic vision creates its own climate to which a reader, going from tourist to townie, can happily adapt....

‘Proxy’ by R. Erica Doyle

Jessica Mason McFadden

Poetry Reviews

March 18, 2013 5 min read

Don’t be deceived by the smooth, delicate exterior of Proxy (Belladonna), and don’t expect to breeze through its interior, either....

‘Riot Lung’ by Leah Horlick

Vanesa Evers

Poetry Reviews

March 12, 2013 2 min read

Leah Horlick’s first collection, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press), offers a journey of seasons and subtle sexual explorations. Throughout this enlightening...

‘Slow Lightning’ by Eduardo C. Corral

Tony Leuzzi

Poetry Reviews

March 5, 2013 3 min read

So much has already been said about Eduardo C. Corral being the first Latino poet to be honored by the...

‘The Talking Day’ by Michael Klein

Christopher Soden

Poetry Reviews

February 27, 2013 3 min read

The Talking Day is a nuanced, poignant, humane and absorbing collection, making supple use of the intricacies and exquisite radiance of language. Read More

‘Collected Poems’ by Naomi Replansky

Julie R. Enszer

Poetry Reviews

February 18, 2013 4 min read

Naomi Replansky’s Collected Poems gathers poems from her first two collections, published in 1952 and 1994, as well as new and previously uncollected poems. 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

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

‘Speaking Wiri Wiri’ by Dan Vera

‘Crime Against Nature’ by Minnie Bruce Pratt

‘Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies’ by Elizabeth J. Colen

‘Appetite’ by Aaron Smith

‘Skin Shift’ by Matthew Hittinger

‘Proxy’ by R. Erica Doyle

‘Riot Lung’ by Leah Horlick

‘Slow Lightning’ by Eduardo C. Corral

‘The Talking Day’ by Michael Klein

‘Collected Poems’ by Naomi Replansky

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