Espresso Shots: And Then I Danced, by Mark Segal
“And Then I Danced” by Mark Segal is a memoir about LGBT activism. Continue reading Espresso Shots: And Then I Danced, by Mark Segal
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Commonplace Book: The Gay Sensibility
John Rechy on gay sensibility. Continue reading Commonplace Book: The Gay Sensibility
Espress Shots: Things We Are Not: M-Brane SF Presents New Tales of the Queer, by Christopher Fletcher
A “lost review” I originally wrote in 2010 about a queer SF anthology. Continue reading Espress Shots: Things We Are Not: M-Brane SF Presents New Tales of the Queer, by Christopher Fletcher
Celebrating Pride Month!
The Driftless Area Review celebrate Gay Pride! Continue reading Celebrating Pride Month!
THE TESS LIEM INTERVIEW
Tess Liem and I talk about the tension between revision and erasure as well the liberation coming from the manipulation of literary forms. Continue reading THE TESS LIEM INTERVIEW
Obits. by Tess Liem
Tess Liem challenges form and the exclusionary practices of the Western literary canon. Continue reading Obits. by Tess Liem
Nature Poem by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
Part backlash, part meditation, “Nature Poem” by Tommy Pico is an urban hipster’s struggle to write on a subject he feels is “stereotypical, reductive, and boring.” Continue reading Nature Poem by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
Commotion of the Birds: New Poems by John Ashbery
In John Ashbery’s final book of poetry “Images coagulate and dissolve in a kaleidoscope of language.” Continue reading Commotion of the Birds: New Poems by John Ashbery
Beautiful Berlin Boys, by Ashkan Sahihi @ NYJB
“Beautiful Berlin Boys” by Ashkan Sahihi resounds as an affirmation of the beauty and individuality of the gay man.” Continue reading Beautiful Berlin Boys, by Ashkan Sahihi @ NYJB
IRL by Tommy Pico @NYJB
Whipsawing between passages of erotic ecstasy and suicidal despair, “IRL” by Tommy “Teebs” Pico reveals itself as a monument of self-lacerating beauty. Continue reading IRL by Tommy Pico @NYJB
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