Adrienne Rich, a pioneering lesbian feminist, poet and essayist who was considered to be one of America's most influential contemporary poets, has died. She was 82. Read More
Amy King’s poems aren’t a walk in the park. They’re a hustle down a city street, an unflinching look at...
"...I freely tell you, I'm a dyke. And tomorrow is my birthday! So maybe the glow from birthdays is already glowing. And my hair still looks good. And I'm going to work on another story in a three-story series no one wants to publish."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which 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 Sarah Sarai. Read More
On the page, Love’s poems remind you that rhyme is the root word for rhythm. Contemporary poetry may have long shied away from the limits of rhyme, but Love’s wordplay is refreshing, executed with precision and a clear, performable quality. All of her poems have a direct relationship with their audience, relying on a rich sense of community instead of any writer-reader barrier. Read More
Nikky Finney is an award-winning, southern-born poet, whose critically acclaimed work is imbued with a distinct sense of lyricism and recurring themes of both social justice and communal history.
She was recently awarded the 2011 National Book Award for her latest collection Head Off & Split. Finney took some time to talk with Lambda Literary Review about her now famous National Book Award speech, shoe shopping with Condoleezza Rice, and the dividing line between art and rhetoric.
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Red cow, blue cow, black cow. A golden calf and a moon-jumping heifer. Figures that often grace pastoral landscapes or children's books have wandered into the realm of poetry. Susan Hawthorne’s latest collection, Cow, blends the bovine figure with ancient mythologies to re-envision history for modern women. Read More
Daphne Gottlieb’s latest poetry collection, true to its title, is a fight for survival in a world rife with conflict, oppression, disaster, and heartbreak. There is no respite. Moments of pure beauty are so few as to be jarring. This is poetry that tells its unflinching truth. Read More
Renowned lesbian poet Kay Ryan was recently named a MacArthur Fellow. The prestigious Fellowship is a $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have...
“Free” is universally appreciated concept. Free items, free expression, and of course, freedom from constraints or burdens—all of these figure...
Chocolate Waters’s three earlier books of poetry, To the man reporter from the Denver Post, Take Me Like a Photograph,...
