A Stranger’s Mirror demonstrates Hacker’s continued formal mastery; she effortlessly spins one sonnet into two, then three, then seven, leaving readers always breathless for more. Read More
What does it mean to be a Jewish writer? To write about the Jewish Lesbian experience? How do we passionately engage with thinking about identity while considering the intersection of both lesbian and Jewish politics and the inherent aversion to labels?
This collection of poetry offers several insights into the hermeneutics of identity in literature and religion. Read More
“There is queer activism in the African diaspora and wherever that movement is, there is always cultural production.” I was...
This April, magazines and blogs across the web have been running poem specials to celebrate National Poetry Month. With only...
2010 was a great year for LGBT poetry, bringing us some exciting new voices, books, and trends. As the year...
This week’s poem comes to us from Marilyn Hacker’s 2000 collection Squares and Courtyards (W.W. Norton & Co.), winner of the...
Lambda Award Finalist Palimpsest—text that has been incompletely erased so that another text can be written over it, often leaving...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you will do/with your one wild and precious life? —”The Summer Day” So...
I never took myself seriously as a writer because I felt that my voice wasn’t valid. Here are five poets...
Life’s not forever, love is precarious. Wherever I live, let me come home to you as you are, I as...
