"It’s interesting how appropriation—as a writing method—still has the stigma of being 'impersonal.' It’s actually the most personable thing you can do—in a social media sense: liking, reposting, remixing. It’s not just a form of flattery; it’s love or art’s equivalent."
A finalist for this year’s Lambda Literary Award category for gay male poetry, Paul Legault talks with Lambda about appropriation in writing, being influenced by the sonnet form, and his intended audience. Read More
This week, a poem from Sophia Le Fraga. Le Fraga takes Adrienne Rich at her word and "diagram[s] the sentence".
Le Fraga finished her B.A. in Linguistics and Poetry at New York University. Her work has appeared in Yes Poetry; Quantum Poetry; Paperblög; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; The Copperfield Review; The Broome Street Review and Lemon Hound; and was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and in 2011, throughout Berlin. A book of erasures, Song of Me and Myself, is forthcoming. Read More
This week, enjoy a special double-feature Spotlight with work from the winners of the two poetry categories from this year's Lambda Literary Awards: "femmes are film stars" from Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (TSAR Publications), and "After a Line by Ted Berrigan" from A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos edited by David Trinidad (Nightboat Books). Read More
From this year’s winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos edited...
From this year’s winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (TSAR Publications)....
In the foreword of Dawn Lundy Martin’s new collection, Discipline (which is up for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award), Fanny Howe, who...
Today, a poem by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.
Holnes is a poet and playwright. He is the recipient of scholarships to Cave Canem and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, various awards, writing fellowships, and writer's residencies. He and his work have appeared in the Kennedy Center College Theater Festival, TIME Magazine, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, on The Best American Poetry blog as one of the Phantastique 5, and elsewhere.
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This week, a poem by Rex Leonowicz.
Leonowicz is a trans-identified intersectional feminist from New York City. His poems have appeared in Bodies of Work magazine and Testimony, an exhibition and online journal of lgbtq creative work. Read More
One-hundred pages into Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses, I stopped thinking of it as a book and...
Today, two poems by Sarah Sarai....
