"The responsibility of poetry organizations is to find ways to promote and honor the voices of these poets--documented or not--if they are truly devoted to poetry, and not just poetry deemed worthy by a government policy." Read More
"Today, being black and gay is an armor, a gospel I love dearly. I love black queers. I love who and how we are. It’s taught me a lot of love; how it can surprise you with its leaps and failures." Read More
Christopher’s debut refuses to flatten anything; in his tumbling, often single-stanza poems, reality is allowed its full difficulty, pain, and ugliness. Read More
Throughout The Erotic Postulate, the politics of “coming together” are explored with a ruthless clarity that is neither cynical nor sentimental.
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Dooley has a particular heartbreaking family story to relate, of children abused, of the traumatized adults who find themselves in closets both metaphorical and literal Read More