Tweaky Village takes scrambled bits of pop culture, light, and color, and reassembles them into flickering lines that create, ultimately, a cohesive, captivating picture
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Understated, ironic and occasionally playful, Brent Calderwood's poems in The God of Longing are vivid and calm Read More
Christopher Hennessy, who edited the wonderful Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets, is no stranger to modern—or postmodern—poetry....
Reading Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press), the debut collection from Ruben Quesada, is like sifting through a box of small,...
Few young poets today write with the lacerating chutzpah of Langston Hughes’ “Dream Deferred,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Mother,” or Ginsberg’s “Please Master,” so imagine my delight when I picked up a copy of Kevin Simmonds’ first solo collection... Read More
Reviewing the Reviewer Last Wednesday it was announced that Philip Levine will be the next U.S. Poet Laureate. The following Saturday,...
Come Out of the Woods, Christian Soldiers; World War Gay Has Ended: In this oft hilarious yet fact-ridden piece, author...
If any poetry collection by a first-time author can be called “much anticipated,” Cool Limbo (NYQ Books) is it. Michael...
Reviewing the Reviewer In “A Very Public Intellectual,” ostensibly a review of Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan...
We’re told not to judge a book by its cover, but just look at the pillow-lipped, sleepy-eyed poet gazing out...
