To the Moon And Back by Melissa Brayden
Melissa Brayden | To the Moon And Back | Lauren Prescott had dreamed of being an actress since she was cast as Wendy in her junior high production of Peter Pan. Yes, her nightgown snagged and
Temptation by Kris Bryant
Kris Bryant | Temptation | Cassie Miller is broke. Her parents cut off all funding when she dropped out of medical school, and graduate school is expensive. A full-time nanny jo
Lifetime Guarantee by Alice Bloch
Alice Bloch | Lifetime Guarantee | Lifetime Guarantee is a memorial to Bloch’s sister, Barbara, who died of leukemia at the age of twenty. Bloch and her sister had planned to write the
Revolutionary Blues And Other Fevers by Julie Blackwomon
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Backtalk by Robin Becker
Robin Becker | Backtalk | As its title suggests, Backtalk, published in 1982, highlights the poet’s cheeky refusal to accept cultural norms. The volume contains some of Becker’
Giacometti’s Dog by Robin Becker
Robin Becker | Giacometti’s Dog | Celebratory or eligiac, these poems record the author’s “two-headed journey” to root herself – geographically and emotionally – in the world. Becker’
One Dyke’s Theater by Terry Baum; Carolyn Myers
Terry Baum; Carolyn Myers | One Dyke’s Theater | Terry Baum’s Dos Lesbos (1981) inspired the first anthology of lesbian plays in the history of the universe–Places, Please!–in 1985. The ten plays i
Whale on the Line by Nuala Archer
Nuala Archer | Whale on the Line | The body is a central trope in Archer’s work. Fearlessly, she explores the sense of exile that results from physical trauma. For example, in “The Devi
From a Mobile Home by Nuala Archer
Nuala Archer | From a Mobile Home | “In From a Mobile Home, Nuala Archer is migrant, immigrant, wanderer poet. In these poems, we move between Oklahoma, Ireland, Swilly and Sewanee, Muns
Two Women, Two Shores by Medbh McGuckian; Nuala Archer
Medbh McGuckian; Nuala Archer | Two Women, Two Shores | The publication of Two Women, Two Shores in 1989 made explicit Archer’s continued connection to Ireland and broadened her themes by including poems se