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
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
