Queer (adj) 1. strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular. 2. of a questionable nature or character;...
Reviewing the Reviewer Last Wednesday it was announced that Philip Levine will be the next U.S. Poet Laureate. The following Saturday,...
In 1985, I was fifteen years old; I subscribed to Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. The first...
The title of Joy Ladin’s 2009 Transmigration suggests the collection’s key themes: death, rebirth, the soul and its passing in...
In addition to being a tireless booster and critic of gay literature (on these pages and elsewhere), Jason Schneiderman is...
Political Reality, Poetic Justice Everywhere we look, work is happening. People are laboring. Goods and services are generated, distributed, bought...
We’re told not to judge a book by its cover, but just look at the pillow-lipped, sleepy-eyed poet gazing out...
Torn Between Love & Devotion C. Dale Young practices medicine, serves as poetry editor for New England Review, and teaches...
The poems in Jackie Sheeler’s new collection, Earthquake Came to Harlem (NYQ Books) are a blow to the head and...
Do you remember the last time you learned something new about an old friend? Were you surprised? Embarrassed? Delighted? As...
