Queer Stages: A Roundup of LGBTQ Theatre Happenings Theodore Pavlich News February 21, 2019 2 min readCheck out this week's dose of LGBTQ theatre news and discourse Read More
G.I. Joe’s Homoerotic Makeover, Naked Walt Whitman, and More LGBT News… Parrish Turner News June 16, 2017 1 min readThis week in LGBT literary news Read More
‘The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips’ by Raymond Luczak Stephen Fellner Reviews March 16, 2017 3 min readAlmost generous to a fault, Luczak’s poems salute Whitman and at the same time he respects him enough to question some of his underlying notions of love, community, and self Read More
Blacklight: J. Aaron Sanders’ ‘Speakers of the Dead’ Recasts an American Literary Giant as a Crime-Fighting Journalist John Copenhaver MysteryOpinion February 28, 2016 2 min readSanders’ Speakers of the Dead traces the beginnings of Walt Whitman’s evolution into the father of free verse by way of a mystery story Read More
Walt Whitman’s Gay Saloon, Rabih Alameddine’s National Book Award Nomination, and More LGBT News Alec Johnsson FeaturesNews October 1, 2014 1 min readRabih Alameddine's National Book Award nomination, Alison Bechdel's next graphic novel, and more lgbt news. Read More
‘Rivering’ by Dean Kostos Philip F. Clark PoetryReviews September 20, 2012 3 min readThe examined life, in poetry, is sometimes a rant. Not so Dean Kostos’s new collection of poems, Rivering (Spuyten Duyvil...
‘Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples’ by Rodger Streitmatter Reginald Harris Bio/MemoirReviews September 12, 2012 2 min readWhat do “The Man in the Arrow Shirt” and the original “Blue Haired Lady” have in common? As Rodger Streitmatter...
In Every City and Town: Singing Whitman’s (and Our) America Kevin Simmonds FeaturesVideos & Trailers May 19, 2011 1 min readDaniel Redman reminds me of Jonathan Silverman in the movie adaptation of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. He has the...
Benjamin Grossberg: Five Poets Who Changed My Life Benjamin Grossberg 5 Poets April 14, 2010 4 min read1. Whitman I first read “Song of Myself” in 1993. I was twenty-two, living on my own for the first...