Gay Poetry Archives

December 22, 2014 3 min read

Dooley has a particular heartbreaking family story to relate, of children abused, of the traumatized adults who find themselves in closets both metaphorical and literal Read More

‘A History of the Unmarried’ by Stephen S. Mills

Thomas March

Poetry Reviews

December 9, 2014 3 min read

Many of the most compelling poems in the collection examine the liberties—sexual, intellectual, and imaginative—that intimacy can actually encourage, not just withstand. Read More

“What if I risk/Taking the head of death/Here in the dark, far/And deep”: Jericho Brown Adds Risky, Prophetic Poems to His Evolving, Elegiac Canon

Julie Marie Wade

Poetry Reviews

December 3, 2014 7 min read

Julie Marie Wade on Jericho Brown's latest poetry collection The New Testament Read More

In Conversation: Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek

Edit Team

Features Interviews

October 28, 2014 10 min read

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the release of each of their first books of poetry, Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek have a discussion about their collections, focusing on the themes and styles in their work. Read More

‘The Possibilities of Mud’ by Joe Jiménez

Stephanie Glazier

Poetry Reviews

July 3, 2014 3 min read

The speaker in The Possibilities of Mud roots down and out in the Texas Gulf. He puts himself in league...

Read Jericho Brown’s Introduction to ‘Prime: Poetry & Conversation’

William Johnson

Features Excerpts

June 29, 2014 4 min read

"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