Eleanor Lerman Archives

August 15, 2011 3 min read

I was 15 years old in the summer of 1969, the summer Woodstock happened: Jimi Hendrix’s scorching “Star-Spangled Banner” sliding...

‘The Sensual World Re-emerges’ by Eleanor Lerman

June 20, 2011 4 min read

2011 Lambda Literary Award Finalist In spite of what the title–The Sensual World Re-emerges (Sarabande Books)–may suggest, I do not...

April 28, 2011 1 min read

In the upcoming month we’ll be featuring poems from this year’s Lambda Literary Award finalists for Gay & Lesbian Poetry....

April 5, 2010 14 min read

Leonard Cohen Forty-plus years ago, when I was a teenager, I went into a drugstore in Far Rockaway, where I...