Nancy Garden, author, editor, LGBT activist, former theater maven and teacher, died suddenly on the morning of June 23 of a massive heart attack. She was 76. 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
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
Gabriel García Márquez said of writing that "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." Read More
The love of poetry comes early. We learn language most readily in the sing-song meter of rhyme and scan. Poetry...
Writer Ayana Mathis on the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Read More
John Mitzel, owner of one of the country's last LGBT bookstores, Boston's Calamus Bookstore, has died. Read More
Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died April 3 in New York from complications of pulmonary disease. She was...
American ex-pat, writer, and critic Donald Richie, author of the memoir The Japan Journals, 1947-2004, died on February 19th, 2013 in Toyko. He was 88. Read More
Julia Penelope was from another era, an era that is truly bygone. Unlike those other theorists, her work was so controversial, so revolutionary, so for lesbians only that what she said often created outrage, even among other lesbians and feminists. Read More
