One vibrant expression of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in the 1970s and 1980s was poetry. The recent passing of...
"A salon-styled tour of queer women artists, The Revival, is a literary search for those people, those women like me who don't quite fit in where we're supposed to. With dynamic performances from poets and musicians alike, The Revival weaves a night of artistry, libations and genuine fellowship. " Read More
"I’m still a tad perplexed about the difference between the banal and the profane, worried that my interpretations are not true enough or different enough from each other. They seem so artistically linked in some way, and I like that. "
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from poet Maureen Seaton. Read More
“Everyone wants music that transports them,” writes the speaker in Julia Bloch’s new book of prose poetry, Letters to Kelly Clarkson. While one need not possess a discerning ear for musical talent to appreciate the cultural meaning of a pop star like Clarkson, Bloch’s collection of poetic epistles pricks the barrier between the actual and the illusory. Read More
Dear Eileen Myles, Your new tandem book Snowflake / different streets (Wave Books) feels so good in my hands. I like to...
That which is noctilucent sends self-generated light through the darkness. Night-shining clouds high in the atmosphere, for instance. Stars. A...
In the foreword of Dawn Lundy Martin’s new collection, Discipline (which is up for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award), Fanny Howe, who...
In their collaborative, experimental poetry collection, Sinéad O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (Firewheel Editions ), Neil de...
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry...
"...I was caught not just in the web of her words, but in the weft of her ability to express her politics so keenly, so succinctly, with such force and breadth."
Writer Victoria A. Brownworth remembers poet, lesbian, feminist, activist, and essayist Adrienne Rich Read More
