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In Nature, a Poet Finds a Visionary Language

Avatar photo by Mark Scroggins April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

The poems of Cody-Rose Clevidence are shot through with a sense of nature’s vitality and with the possibility that the numinous, even the divine, may inhere in that nature.

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This Anthology of Trans Poetics Channels a Spirit of Dissent

Avatar photo by Keenan Teddy Smith December 25, 2020December 28, 2020

We Want It All positions poetry as an everyday weapon, formidable against the cruel mundane.

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Abstract Poetry and the Language of Life

by Jeffrey Grunthaner July 11, 2020November 5, 2020

What’s most remarkable about Carlos Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter is the palpable sense that the author is translating life into language.

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An Evolution of Style in Three Poets

Avatar photo by Mark Scroggins February 8, 2020February 7, 2020

I love discovering new voices, but there’s much to be said for following poets over the course of their careers, watching their styles evolve, their attentions shift.

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A Trans Activist’s Memoir Is a Monumental Contribution to Queer History

by Caden Mark Gardner October 28, 2019

Lou Sullivan’s diaries, spanning 1961 to 1991, might be one of the most valuable affirmations one can read on the trans masculine experience to date.

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The Poetry of Psychoanalysis

by Jeffrey Grunthaner February 17, 2019February 18, 2019

Jasmine Gibson’s training as a psychoanalyst seems to permeate the organization of her poems’ imagery.

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A New Anthology Amplifies the Voices of Queer Poets of Color

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 25, 2018January 2, 2019

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color features works by literary legends like Audre Lorde and James Baldwin alongside contemporaries like Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, and Danez Smith.

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Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing

by Michael Valinsky October 15, 2017October 16, 2017

For a writer whose life was so enmeshed with the experiences of being seen and talked about, Acker never truly established a fixed identity outside of language.

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The Physics of Race, History, and Everyday Life

Avatar photo by Marcella Durand September 3, 2017September 5, 2017

Samiya Bashir’s poems attempt to describe with scientific precision the position of the black body in American culture.

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When “Queer” Art Becomes Commonplace

by Risa Puleo February 27, 2017February 28, 2017

In The Estrangement Principle, author Ariel Goldberg warns against the dangers of overusing the word “queer.”

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Etel Adnan: Philosophy at Night

Avatar photo by Matt Turner October 15, 2016October 15, 2016

Lebanese-American artist, philosopher, and poet Etel Adnan’s recent publication, Night, is in equal measure a series of meditations on intersubjectivity and spirituality, and a dialogue between prose poetry and short verse.

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Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign

by John Yau August 28, 2016August 28, 2016

Brandon Som’s first book of poems, The Tribute Horse, won the 2012 Nightboat Poetry Prize.

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