Brent Calderwood Archives

March 3, 2011 3 min read

John Gruber (b.1928), the last surviving member of the original Mattachine Society, died peacefully at his home in Santa Clara...

‘The First Risk’ by Charles Jensen

Brent Calderwood

Poetry Reviews

August 12, 2010 4 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Charles Jensen, winner of the 2006 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, has delivered an admirable full-length collection with...

‘The Salt Ecstasies’ by James L. White

Brent Calderwood

Poetry Reviews

August 5, 2010 3 min read

Part of Graywolf’s wonderful “Re/View” series, which publishes important work by out-of-print and outsider poets, The Salt Ecstasies, one of...

‘Breakfast With Thom Gunn’ by Randall Mann

Brent Calderwood

Poetry Reviews

July 15, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Randall Mann, whose debut collection Complaint in the Garden earned raves and was winner of the Kenyon...

The World Underneath: Richard Tayson

Brent Calderwood

Poetry

July 21, 2009 3 min read

With his second book of poetry, Richard Tayson delivers mightily on the promise of his wonderful debut collection, The Apprentice...

‘Want’ by Rick Barot

Brent Calderwood

Poetry

July 15, 2009 2 min read

Rick Barot, whose first book, The Darker Fall, won Sarabande Books’ Kathryn A. Morton Prize in 2002, is back with...

Legacies of Love: Winston Wilde

Brent Calderwood

Nonfiction Reviews

July 6, 2009 4 min read

It has often been stated that the blessing and curse of queer relationships is that we must create our own...

‘Boy With Flowers’ by Ely Shipley

Brent Calderwood

Poetry Reviews

July 6, 2009 2 min read

Boy with Flowers (Barrow Street), selected by Carl Phillips for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, is one of the...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

John Gruber, One of Gay Movement’s Unsung Founding Fathers, Dies at 82

‘The First Risk’ by Charles Jensen

‘The Salt Ecstasies’ by James L. White

‘Breakfast With Thom Gunn’ by Randall Mann

The World Underneath: Richard Tayson

‘Want’ by Rick Barot

Legacies of Love: Winston Wilde

‘Boy With Flowers’ by Ely Shipley

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta