Kicking off National Poetry Month, The Advocate recently showcased the work of all the poets nominated for Lambda Literary Awards this year....
Moïse’s poetry embraces everything from her native Haiti, to the experience of an immigrant child, to Basquiat, to the loss of her uncle to AIDS. With brilliant control, Moïse pulls taut the wire that transforms pain into poetry. Read More
Siek’s poems have a way of hooking you in with the specificity of daily life’s doldrums (commuting, car battery lugging, grocery shopping, mail opening, dishwashing, working, and working out) and the speaker’s inner thoughts and lively, sometimes brooding associations. Read More
This week, a poem from Kelly McQuain's forthcoming Velvet Rodeo, winner of the 2013 BLOOM Poetry Chapbook Prize. Read More
The love of poetry comes early. We learn language most readily in the sing-song meter of rhyme and scan. Poetry...
A homoerotic interfaith adventure awaits in The Daring of Paradise, the newest poetry book by Toronto teacher Brian Day....
Signing your very first book is a landmark moment for all writers. It’s like your first crack at kissing or screwing or loving. Possibly, it’s a moment you recall in Technicolor. Or, maybe, it’s a sliver of time coated with murk and fuzz. Read More
There are ways in which this collection of poems (by turns light and searing) doesn’t necessarily want the reader to get too comfortable. Read More
This book’s title simultaneously draws one with its high diction and keeps one at bay and the first poem, “When...
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, I knew three facts about my mother’s brother, Robert Friend: he...
