If any poetry collection by a first-time author can be called “much anticipated,” Cool Limbo (NYQ Books) is it. Michael...
2011 Lambda Literary Award Finalist When first diving into Jen Currin’s The Inquisition Yours (Coach House), I found myself explicating...
Three Lesbian Poetry Chap Books Considered For all its gains in past decades, queer literature has also suffered significant losses....
Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not meant to be a crumb. (From “Don’t...
Political Reality, Poetic Justice Everywhere we look, work is happening. People are laboring. Goods and services are generated, distributed, bought...
Towards the end of Walter Holland’s book Circuit (Chelsea Station Editions) a few sonnets suddenly arrange what had been a...
Poets, whether by design or accident, capture and preserve a moment in time with every poem. This is particularly true...
We’re told not to judge a book by its cover, but just look at the pillow-lipped, sleepy-eyed poet gazing out...
In October of 1985, I was a freshmen in college, turning 18, and watching Rock Hudson dying from AIDS on...
The poems in Jackie Sheeler’s new collection, Earthquake Came to Harlem (NYQ Books) are a blow to the head and...
