In language by turns playful and painful, Oliver Baez Bendorf examines the complex nexus of feelings that we all experience in encountering our past selves…. read more

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson’s Slingshot is a strange, precise, and sumptuous poetry collection… read more

The Tradition is a lesson in the power of craft… read more

This collection recognizes that life is long and that expressions of the self change over time… read more

In this, Teare’s sixth book, he uses his astonishingly precise verse to elucidate what he thinks is perhaps the greatest cause of our current environmental crisis: the ability for humans to see themselves as somehow separate from the world… read more

John Fry’s debut collection of poetry is akin to a queer anointing for any reader who has ever felt lost, cast out, unwelcome…. read more

“The Catamount” captures the chaos of a created world through the fixation on the Cat, a creature without native language, used as a totem or guide for those who cannot communicate with them…. read more

“Part of the ongoing search is the arc towards embracing a queer identity, as both child and man. The language becomes a corridor that moves toward the past and the future, simultaneously, ultimately linking—each informing each.”… read more

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