Category: Poetry

Michelle Cliff | Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise | “To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power – pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen

Sarah Pinder | Common Place | Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messag

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