Poetry That Makes You Nearly Miss the Plane: The Complete Works of Pat Parker...
At the Miami Book Fair in November 2015, I heard the indefatigable poet, scholar, and editor Julie R. Enszer read from Lilith’s Demons, her new collection of poems just out from A Midsummer Night’s...
View ArticleThe Woman Behind the Curtain Pulling the Levers: Talking with Zinzi Clemmons
When I first read the synopsis of What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons, I knew I had to read it. We overlapped in Columbia University’s MFA program, and although she was Fiction and I was Nonfiction, I knew...
View ArticleHow Men Fight for Their Lives
Until now, it has always felt like lying when I tell people I was gay bashed in the first few hours of January 2008. Actually, it still feels a bit like I’m telling a lie but—I think—that’s the point...
View ArticleA Deeper Narrative: Tongo Eisen-Martin’s Heaven Is All Goodbyes
Audre Lorde wrote: “Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.” In Heaven Is...
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