"I think you can take pleasure in something and critique it at the same time. A lot of my writing is doing that. It is taking a critical examination of this thing we are all talking about and all enjoying while asking, but at what price?" Read More
"[...] much has been written recently about America’s tangled multiracial family tree. Penny Mickelbury, one of the founders of black LGBTQ fiction, joins that group with her new novel Belle City." Read More
"Using rhythm and invented rhyme as a vehicle, the poems in Prelude to Bruise sing a song of the self that manages to be both highly personal and wholly recognizable." Read More
"For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is in no way passive." Read More
"[Saint] knew he had to chronicle the black gay voices of AIDS or they would be lost. He had to collect the bits and pieces that would create a different kind of names quilt–the angry verses, the embittered stanzas, the breathy last couplets of the dying." Read More
“Who will love you if you never tell the truth?” This question carries a universality beholden to the human condition,...
Angelou wrote, "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Read More
"Clarke is a provocative poet who never asks permission to make her voice heard." Read More
Yabo lyrically maps the spiritual and physical borders between love, passion, sexuality, and gender. Read More
Butch Queens Up in Pumps is about more than just Detroit Ballroom culture; it provides a thorough theorizing and portrayal of how people marginalized by "otherness" build alternative communities and self-sustaining cultures in the margins. Read More
