Music for Porn (Nightboat Books) is a linguistic symphony of the fetishization and politicization of the body of the "soldier" and an exploration of intimacy and desire. Read More
Western Practice (Alice James Books) is a homage to California and its artists, but it is also a movement of history...
Montreal’s Mile-End neighborhood is famous as an artists’ haven, home to bands such as Arcade Fire and a multilingual writing community. It’s a hybrid zone of overlapping languages and ethnicities and the setting of Gail Scott’s fourth novel, The Obituary. Read More
The sea: perhaps the original literary symbol, embodying life, death, and endless change. The fog: mysterious, atmospheric, and sometimes deadly. Etel Adnan’s new collection, named for the elements on which it meditates, offers darkly contemplative verse pondering the contemporary human condition.
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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...
In the foreword of Dawn Lundy Martin’s new collection, Discipline (which is up for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award), Fanny Howe, who...
During my senior year of college, as I was researching for my thesis on the poetic response to AIDS, I...
