In the foreword of Dawn Lundy Martin’s new collection, Discipline (which is up for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award), Fanny Howe, who...
The Rhyming Dictionary, Leather Porn & Barbara Streisand’s “Evergreen”: My Week with Agha Shahid Ali
"...if we 've never heard Shahid’s name mentioned much in circles of gay literati, it's largely due to the fact that each passing month sees the release of more and more volumes of poetry, and possibly just as many anthologies, more and more of them written and compiled by out gay men. From this perspective, Shahid can get lost in the shuffle. But if you knew Shahid, or if you admire any of the work he left behind, you’ll know he can’t, he won’t be lost..." Read More
In their collaborative, experimental poetry collection, Sinéad O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (Firewheel Editions ), Neil de...
That a renowned editor and chief at a famous publishing house (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar Strauss & Giroux) should come out...
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry...
"...I was caught not just in the web of her words, but in the weft of her ability to express her politics so keenly, so succinctly, with such force and breadth."
Writer Victoria A. Brownworth remembers poet, lesbian, feminist, activist, and essayist Adrienne Rich Read More
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering lesbian feminist, poet and essayist who was considered to be one of America's most influential contemporary poets, has died. She was 82. Read More
One of the most anticipated and exciting events at the Associated Writers & Writing Programs Conference, held this year in...
Coming out is a process as endless as its audiences, Francisco Aragón aptly quotes Kenji Yoshino in Glow of Our...
Amy King’s poems aren’t a walk in the park. They’re a hustle down a city street, an unflinching look at...
