Page Meets Stage is a quarterly event where established writers are paired with emerging teen poets from Urban Word NYC to engage in a conversation about their works… 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

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

The world reacts to the Orlando Pulse shooting, indie presses open indie bookstores, and more LGBT news…… read more

Charlie Bondhus is haunted by the eponymous “boy.” The shadowy child reifies memory, allowing the poet to address and redress the past. However, the boy’s shape-shifting manifestations resist the poet’s grasp. The slippery presence allows him to straddle antitheses—the lyric with the narrative, the sacred with the erotic: “[A]nd then everyone / naked and kneeling… read more

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

Good poets make us think; great poets make us imagine. And this is exactly what Michael Klein helps us do in his visceral, exultant, new collection of poetry and prose… read more

This week, a poem by Jarrett Neal…. read more

This week, a poem by Michael Broder…. read more

Danez Smith’s writing is not safe. How can one’s writing be safe when their life is constantly in danger?… read more