This slim volume is a conscientious effort to showcase the multitude of queer female voices that hail from the Midwest....
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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Three Lesbian Poetry Chap Books Considered For all its gains in past decades, queer literature has also suffered significant losses....
Poet, writer, and social theorist, Judy Grahn has been working in liberatory movements and communities her entire life. It may...
