Understated, ironic and occasionally playful, Brent Calderwood’s poems in The God of Longing are vivid and calm… read more

There is a quiet precision to Bondhus’ poems, like sealing something dangerous, despairing or grotesque in a glass jar…. read more

In his diminutive yet formidable collection, Fortunate Light (A Midsummer Night’s Press), David Bergman has achieved something relatively rare in contemporary poetry: a way to discuss sex that is intriguing, witty, intelligent, nuanced, frank and subversive. He is not salacious or graphic, but neither is he lofty or coy. In “Narcissus” he interprets myth as… read more

The Talking Day is a nuanced, poignant, humane and absorbing collection, making supple use of the intricacies and exquisite radiance of language…. read more

Something I often find annoying about biographies is their blatant attempts to shape our responses. Either the writer crafts an homage, believing the subject is beyond reproach, or barely concealed antipathy creates a portrait that is diminishing. Such is not the case with Robert A. Schanke’s current treatise: Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans. Schanke… read more

Christopher Soden at the Fellows Reading during the Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, August 8-15, 2010…. read more

In less than two weeks, 33 of our most talented emerging writers representing every region in the U.S. (15 states!) and Canada (British Columbia!) will come to Los Angeles for a pivotal experience in their careers — the Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices — to be held August 8-15 at the American Jewish University… read more