Category: Poetry

Arisa White | You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened | Trump became president-elect on November 8th [2016] and ever since all of the queer people of color, women of color in my life have been texting. Ever

JoSelle Vanderhooft | The Memory Palace | The rooms in The Memory Palace are filled with holy relics, profane agonies, memories that are revelations, and windows to wonders . . .A significant

Makhosazana Xaba | Like the Untouchable Wind | This book is a choir of voices of women who self­identify as lesbian and bisexual. Using poetry they share their experiences, their feelings and their

Susan Sherman | Women Poems/Love Poems | In lieu of a review, here is one of the poems:

POEM TO A WORD UNSPOKEN

You pull me toward you

You fill me My body reaching

toward

Lynda Koolish | Journeys on the Living | Poems, photographs, drawings.

Vi Khi Nao | The Old Philosopher | The Old Philosopher is enigmatic, sexual, biblical, anachronistic, political, and personal all at once. These quiet, implosive poems inhabit a nonline

Maureen Duffy | Evesong | Illustrations by Celia Berridge. Includes biographical note on Duffy.

Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split | ‘Nikky Finney has been a fine poet much too long to say that this latest treasure is her promise coming into being. She exploded with so much talent w

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