Category: Poetry

Amber Flora Thomas | Eye of Water | Winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize The poems in Eye of Water are derived from the narrator’s experiences in what she calls her “waking.”  She

Olga Broumas | Beginning with O | This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in the light of Gre

Audre Lorde | The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde | A complete collection-over 300 poems-from one of this country’s most influential poets. ‘These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page.’–Adrienne

Puro Nina | Each Tree Could Hold a Noose Or a House | The personal is political for Puro, too: The anguish and drama in this capacious first volume arise both without and within. It’s a tumultuous, unguar

Gumbs Alexis Pauline | Spill | In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes d

Stacy Szymaszek | Orizaba | Poetry. CAConrad describes ORIZABA: A VOYAGE WITH HART CRANE as ‘one of the most important literary ventures into Gender Questioning, told through the

Olga Broumas | Soie Sauvage | A collection of poetry

Stacy Szymaszek | Emptied of All Ships | Poetry. ‘EMPTIED OF ALL SHIPS is a setting out onto crucial waters. Each word here has its own weight and position–its own vital movement between pol

Jeff Mann; Julia Watts | Lgbtq Fiction And Poetry From Appalachia | ‘This collection, the first of its kind, gathers fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia. Like

Douglas Ray | The Queer South | In THE QUEER SOUTH, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poet