In order for a collection about identity to resonate, it must be a collection that lets everything in: Young seems to instinctively and lyrically know this Read More
Pico's poems value the vulgar and silly, as they mingle laffs and puns with colonialism, death, trauma, and our society’s disgraceful treatment of Janet Jackson. Read More
In Don’t Call Us Dead, Smith’s attention moves from the violence perpetrated on black boys to queerness and HIV and back to race, using startling forms and imaginative leaps. Read More
