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March 25, 2021 4 min read

Cave Canem and Lambda Literary are excited to announce the publication of New Dreams, a collection of poetry centering environmental justice....

New Dreams: Poems and Conversation

Edit Team

Features

March 4, 2021 3 min read

Join poets Kay Ulanday Barrett, Bernard Ferguson, torrin a. greathouse, and Khadijah Queen as they share newly commissioned poems on...

Dead Lesbian Poets: A Meditation in Six Parts

Julie R. Enszer

Features

July 8, 2020 25 min read

“Song is a persuasive thing: let girls learn to sing…”“Sappho to Phaon,” Ovid, translated by Judith P. Hallett I. Leucadian...

Poetry Doesn’t Merely Recapitulate Experience, It Creates Experience

Aaron Shurin

Features

April 27, 2020 6 min read

"It’s a gift of art that poetry doesn’t merely recapitulate experience, it creates experience." Read More

Postcolonial Love Poem Subverts Dominant Myths with Lyric Poignancy

Lynn McGee

Reviews

April 17, 2020 4 min read

I’m grateful for women who have demolished barriers and led us through. Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn and Adrienne Rich have...

Cutting: On Poetry and Navigating Pain

Rajiv Mohabir

Features Opinion

June 2, 2016 4 min read

"Cutting was not about externalizing the pain of being a misfit. It was about winding disparate threads of the ways I didn’t fit into one visible chord." Read More

The Inauguration of ‘Nepantla’ in Chicago

Judith Markowitz

Features News

September 7, 2014 1 min read

In case you missed the Nepantla launch reading in Chicago last week. Read More

‘The Burning Door’ by Tony Leuzzi

David Eye

Poetry

May 20, 2014 3 min read

Leuzzi’s images at once startle and ring true; his use of language adroit and “precise as a needle[...]” Read More

“wooden brain grotesque ideas”: turning the table in transgender poetics

TT Jax

Features Opinion

January 6, 2014 13 min read

"The trick, then, is how we intentionally employ the mischief or menace of language. How have other sort-of poets and artists bucked coherency to make meaning for themselves?" Read More

‘Metaphysical Dog’ by Frank Bidart

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

September 24, 2013 3 min read

Metaphysical Dog is a grandly, at times depressingly valedictory collection... Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Read This! New Dreams: A Collection of Poetry Centering Environmental Justice

New Dreams: Poems and Conversation

Dead Lesbian Poets: A Meditation in Six Parts

Poetry Doesn’t Merely Recapitulate Experience, It Creates Experience

Postcolonial Love Poem Subverts Dominant Myths with Lyric Poignancy

Cutting: On Poetry and Navigating Pain

The Inauguration of ‘Nepantla’ in Chicago

‘The Burning Door’ by Tony Leuzzi

“wooden brain grotesque ideas”: turning the table in transgender poetics

‘Metaphysical Dog’ by Frank Bidart

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta