‘Handmade Love’ by Julie Enszer Courtney Gillette Poetry April 28, 2010 2 min readWhat becomes of the romance of being young and queer when one gets older? In her first collection, Julie Enszer—poet,...
‘Mute’ by Raymond Luczak Rigoberto Gonzalez Poetry April 22, 2010 2 min read“A deaf man is a foreign country./ He remains forever a language to learn,” declares the speaker in “Instructions to...
‘Approaching Ice’ by Elizabeth Bradfield Julie R. Enszer Poetry April 15, 2010 2 min readLong-term obsession provides the poet a palette, onto which she squeezes oil-based paint, mixes and smudges them with knives, then...
‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems’ by Kay Ryan Steven Rydman Poetry April 8, 2010 2 min readThe title poem of Kay Ryan’s New and Selected Poems celebrates the “pared down” and simple experiences of life, positing...
‘Conjuring Jesus’ by Brian Day Kittredge Cherry Poetry April 2, 2010 2 min readA vibrantly alive Jesus, complete with homoerotic desires, emerges from the poetry of Brian Day in his new book Conjuring...
Two Books by Timothy Liu Jason Schneiderman Poetry March 25, 2010 6 min readEver prolific, Timothy Liu published two books in 2009, one a collaboration with the visual artist Greg Drasler, the other...
‘Long Distance’ by Steven Cordova Rigoberto Gonzalez Poetry March 18, 2010 3 min readIn Steven Cordova’s poem “13 Things to Do Once I’m Dead,” “Stop thinking about death” tops the list. This starting...
‘Sweet Core Orchard’ by Benjamin Grossberg Jason Schneiderman Poetry March 11, 2010 3 min readBenjamin Grossberg’s second collection of poems is a book about writing—about writing’s processes and demands and possibilities. The volume tends...
Vulval Chaos: The Poetry of Susan Hawthorne Carolyn Gage Poetry March 4, 2010 3 min read“chaos/ in the shape of two vulval wings—/the butterfly effect” This line is from the opening poem of The Butterfly...
'The Heart's Traffic' by Ching-In Chen Jason Schneiderman Poetry February 1, 2010 4 min readChen hasn’t settled on a single voice or form, and the one can feel the poet’s excitement at trying out...