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February 11, 2021 2 min read

The Book of Anna, by Joy Ladin, explores the emotional landscape of life after the Holocaust through the eyes of fictional protagonist Anna Asher. This month, EOAGH...

More Than Organs is a Ferocious and Necessary Collection

AD Tenn

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November 17, 2020 3 min read

Kay Ulanday Barrett’s More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press) is a ferocious work of necessity in 2020. This second collection...

Read This! Isobel Bess’ Powerful Anyway I Saw a Light There

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November 10, 2020 6 min read

The following is excerpted from anyway i saw a light there, the new collection by Lambda Literary Fellow Isobel Bess. Crafted with a rigorous...

Blizzard Delivers a Collection Full of Memory, Feeling, and Sensation

Kiran Bhat

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October 11, 2020 5 min read

A blizzard. A thrust of ice carved into pieces, condensed, and hurled into the wind. Each fragment of snow in...

Read This! Benjamin Garcia’s Electrifying Thrown in the Throat

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August 11, 2020 7 min read

The following is excerpted from Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions), the debut poetry collection by Lambda Literary Fellow Benjamin Garcia. With exhilarating candor,...

In Crossfire, Staceyann Chin Observes and Denounces Obstacles to Loving the Self

Sarah Sarai

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August 9, 2020 3 min read

Staceyann Chin’s poems know “how beautiful you are” and want to convince you of same. In her first full-length collection,...

The Expertly Wrought Here is the Sweet Hand Contains Humor, Desire, and Terror

Lynn McGee

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August 3, 2020 4 min read

Full disclosure, I like prepositions to help out in the small ways I expect, and if a verb is used...

The Shore Charts a Course for How to be Humane

Allison Cobb

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May 29, 2020 4 min read

The primary thing I feel reading Chris Nealon’s The Shore is gratitude. Gratitude that he exists as a writer and...

In Light of Recent Events in Minneapolis, Listen to this ‘Letter to White America’

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May 29, 2020 1 min read

In light of recent events in Minneapolis, this poem from Lambda Literary Award winning poet Danez Smith is particularly relevant....

Cyrus Cassells on Navigating Loss and Cultivating Beauty

Christopher Bakka

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April 30, 2020 5 min read

Cyrus Cassells won the 1981 National Poetry Series for his first book, The Mud Actor, as well as the 1997...

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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

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‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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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

The Book of Anna Maps the Emotional Landscape of a Holocaust Survivor

More Than Organs is a Ferocious and Necessary Collection

Read This! Isobel Bess’ Powerful Anyway I Saw a Light There

Blizzard Delivers a Collection Full of Memory, Feeling, and Sensation

Read This! Benjamin Garcia’s Electrifying Thrown in the Throat

In Crossfire, Staceyann Chin Observes and Denounces Obstacles to Loving the Self

The Expertly Wrought Here is the Sweet Hand Contains Humor, Desire, and Terror

The Shore Charts a Course for How to be Humane

In Light of Recent Events in Minneapolis, Listen to this ‘Letter to White America’

Cyrus Cassells on Navigating Loss and Cultivating Beauty

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