Primer is revelatory. The book opens up a dialogue on trust, joy, rejection, celebration, fear, and anger. But the book's essential power and beauty is its sense of emotional knowledg Read More
Every month, “Appreciations” looks closely at a selection of excellent poems from recently-published books by LGBTQ poets Read More
"Observant songs of history and elegy, these poems turn our faces to what we can do with love and language, and what we can’t." Read More
At this year’s AWP, I had the pleasure of reading in a four-hour, cross-genre literary marathon called Queertopia at Boston’s...
Richard Blanco’s Looking for The Gulf Motel (University of Pittsburgh Press) is a compelling series of poems that explore Blanco’s Cuban heritage and his journey from adolescence to manhood... Read More
Richard Blanco’s work is extraordinary in its ability to tell a clear and compelling story filled with vivid imagery culled from various cultures, and in the subtle and inimitable way he suggests that no language has primacy over another. Read More
Let’s be honest, great expectations of literary endeavors often result in readerly disappointment. But this is not the case with...
For our last Spotlight of National Poetry Month, we're thrilled to bring you three poems from Aaron Smith's forthcoming Appetite. Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His chapbooks include What's Required, winner of the 2003 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, and Men in Groups. Read More
