Pruyn creates powerful poems that beautifully explore themes of love and loss…. read more

A poetic formalist who has close affinities with Thom Gunn, Mann’s breathtaking skill is every bit apparent in his latest collection of poems, Proprietary. … read more

For all the universal themes covered—love, family, grief, origin—one of the most engrossing is Chen’s handling of self-doubt… read more

Selected as a finalist by Richard Siken for the 2016 BOAAT Chapbook Prize, Gabriel’s latest chapbook is a thunderous, heady sonnet cycle about beloved icon Candy Darling…. read more

Every month, “Appreciations” looks closely at a poem or poems from recently-published books by LGBTQ poets. … read more

how to get over is an ambitious collection in conversation with everything from Keats to Kanye… read more

Primer is revelatory. The book opens up a dialogue on trust, joy, rejection, celebration, fear, and anger. But the book’s essential power and beauty is its sense of emotional knowledg… read more

The poems in Kingdom Come become progressively more luminous—even as they insist on their carnality… read more

Charles Jensen’s chapbook Breakup/Breakdown is about heartbreak and the trials and tribulations of romance… read more

Almost 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