Jeff Mann and Julia Watts have assembled a first-of-its-kind collection of works by queer Appalachians. … read more

In order for a collection about identity to resonate, it must be a collection that lets everything in: Young seems to instinctively and lyrically know this… read more

Szmaszek delineates an experience of early twenty-first-century living that prefers comfort but never really believes it will come…. read more

Soft Science explores the intersections of identity, race, sexuality, and real/not-realness…. read more

Pico’s poems value the vulgar and silly, as they mingle laffs and puns with colonialism, death, trauma, and our society’s disgraceful treatment of Janet Jackson…. read more

Company attempts a reclaiming of the past despite the violence enshrined therein… read more

The poems in Mills’ new collection are like chapters in two parallel and interwoven tales—one historical and the other contemporary…. read more

Andrea Gibson expertly walks the line between grief and hope, giving readers a deeply layered collection of poems… read more

Rather than pin down or bemoan our lack of perceptual surety, Adnan builds a nebula for readers to drift about…. read more

In Don’t Call Us Dead, Smith’s attention moves from the violence perpetrated on black boys to queerness and HIV and back to race, using startling forms and imaginative leaps…. read more