This week, a new poem by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. Pizarro is the author of Caparazones (2010), the first lesbian fiction novel written in Puerto Rico, published by Editorial Egales in Spain, and the editor of the anthology Cachaperismos, the first Puerto Rican lesbian anthology on the island. 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...
In D.A. Powell’s fifth book, he takes up the landscapes of the Central Valley. He shows us the churches and the malls, the housing developments and the gay bars, the parking lots and the fields (yes, there are naughty times to be had in all)... Read More
"The tagline for the book is, 'everybody becomes Andy,' and that's something I came almost unwillingly to understand..."
2011 saw the publication of several new biographies about Andy Warhol, but perhaps none with such an unusual voice as Megan Volpert's Sonics in Warholia, from Sibling Rivalry Press. In this interview, Charles Jensen sits down with the author of this distinctive new book to dig into the connections between Warhol and, well, everything. Read More
Today we're excited to bring you The Lavender Issue of phati'tude, guest edited by Timothy Liu. This incredible collection features work by almost thirty LGBT contributors, including twenty-two poets (Eileen Myles and our own David Groff among them). Originally slated for release in summer 2010, we're now excited to offer a complete PDF of the magazine on our site and share this issue with even more queer readers Read More
This Valentine's Day, we're pleased to bring you Alex Dimitrov's love poem for fellow poet Dorothea Lasky.
Dimitrov's first book of poems, Begging for It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in early 2013. He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize for younger poets from The American Poetry Review and the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Slate, Tin House, and Boston Review.
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For our first Poetry Spotlight of 2012, three poems by Ely Shipley.
Shipley's first book, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, and was a Lambda Literary finalist. His poems and lyric essays appear in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Phoebe, Greensboro Review, Barrow Street, Third Coast, and elsewhere. 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
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
Unmistakably bisexual, accomplished and rich, The Horizontal Poet is an excellent offering of 57 poems from wordsmith Jan Steckel. A...
