Poetry

‘Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity’ by William Reichard

September 28, 2016 4 min read

This is a collection of quiet growth and beautiful transitory moments. Reichard is a silent Adam leading us through the fallen Eden of his past. He is the soft-spoken conscience of a lost world Read More

Navigating Poetry Manuscripts and Failure: A Week in the Life of Poet Elaina Ellis

Edit Team

Opinion The Banal & the Profane

September 26, 2016 5 min read

"I’m very good at being inconsistent, which sometimes leads to bad coffee. It also leads to good pancakes." Read More

A Poem by Jen Levitt

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

September 18, 2016 1 min read

This week, a poem from Jen Levitt's The Off-Season , out this month from Four Way Books Read More

Read This! The Third Issue of ‘Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color’

Christopher Soto

News Poetry

September 15, 2016 3 min read

Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color aims to preserve diversity within the queer poetry community Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Ocean Vuong & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Christopher Soto

Interviews

September 14, 2016 5 min read

"For me that is success, to be able to speak with one another with our best intentions. I always see that as the end goal, to reach humans. Success is when the world becomes a vehicle for the work." Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Brenda Shaughnessy & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Christopher Soto

Interviews

September 12, 2016 9 min read

"Really it’s neither difficult nor devastating to hit a wrong note or to write a bad line of poetry. Just write another. Sing another song. Big whoop, I realized. But it took me decades to figure that out." Read More

Queer Readers and Kim Addonizio’s ‘Bukowski in a Sundress’

Isaiah Vianese

Opinion Poetry

September 7, 2016 3 min read

Addonizio’s work is important to many LGBTQ readers because her writing persona works as an amalgamation of identities queer readers understand: the outsider, the rebel, the provocateur, the lover, and the survivor Read More

Kokumo: On Her New Poetry Collection, the Search For Love, and the Determination to Survive

H. Melt

Interviews

September 4, 2016 2 min read

"This book has been in me my whole life. And I'd say what inspired it was the need to celebrate the genius of how I survived and survive a world that is consistently telling me I'm not welcome." Read More

Appreciations: Derrick Austin’s “Summertime”

Thomas March

Opinion Poetry

August 31, 2016 6 min read

Every month, “Appreciations” looks closely at a poem or poems from recently-published books by LGBTQ poets Read More

‘Radiance’ by Emanuel Xavier

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

August 17, 2016 5 min read

Xavier’s spectral invocations derive no small power from an eye for simultaneity: between past and present, life and death, and for events separated only by geographical distance Read More

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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

‘Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity’ by William Reichard

Navigating Poetry Manuscripts and Failure: A Week in the Life of Poet Elaina Ellis

A Poem by Jen Levitt

Read This! The Third Issue of ‘Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color’

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Ocean Vuong & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Brenda Shaughnessy & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Queer Readers and Kim Addonizio’s ‘Bukowski in a Sundress’

Kokumo: On Her New Poetry Collection, the Search For Love, and the Determination to Survive

Appreciations: Derrick Austin’s “Summertime”

‘Radiance’ by Emanuel Xavier

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