"Even without the preferred methods, one must survive," swears Lovedog, one of the incandescent stars in Lilith Latini's constellation of trans heroines. But these women are far from satisfied with mere survival. Whether fooling around with boys, dancing till sunrise, or just putting together...

Imagoes touches on the queer experience from infacy to its bloom. Collectively, these poets have been published internationally. The group boast a few MFA's, Cave Canem and Watering hole fellows. This book provides insight on the queer experience in the United States and at...

A fast-paced debut that draws upon reservation folklore, pop culture, fractured gospels, and her brother's addiction to methamphetamine

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages-bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers-be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by...

"A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice."--Booklist"Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones."--Elle"[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed...

2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and...

Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies...

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and...

The queer lit is back & the third time's the charm! More LGBTQ+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry and scripts from over two-dozen writers, including two from India where homosexuality was only just legalized.

Internationally celebrated poet places her Palestinian-American identity center stage, putting a human face on war, honoring courage, praying for peace.

Cut to Bloom, where Noah Arhm Choi dares to explore the journey of unlearning the survival instinct of trauma. Through the complex hyphen between Asian and American identity, queerness and belonging, and survival and choice, Arhm Choi delves into the heart of what it...

Ellen Bass's Indigo is a nuanced and profound exploration of life's complexities-where joy and devotion meet regret and dependence.

Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They...

"more forgetting time.more midnight dances with yourself." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents a new companion series, "you are your own fairy tale" the first installment, break your glass slippers, is about...

A poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín's poetry book is a collection...

2021 Midwest Book Awards - Poetry Debut Gold Medal Winner 2020 Forewords Reviews INDIES Awards - Poetry Gold Medal Winner "Prophetic in bleak times" --DR. CORNEL WESTThe Willies, Adam Falkner's first full-length poetry collection, offers a sharp and vulnerable portrait of the journey into...

Porsha Olayiwola's debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance. These poems dip their hands into the fabric of black womanhood and revel in it. Shimmer establishes Olayiwola firmly in the lineage of black queer poetics, celebrating the work done...

S. L. Feemster's debut collection of stories, scripts, and soundtracks, set to the tone of our collective energy. Seeing ourselves; and seeing others, through ourselves. Selections from Up.W(o/a)rds now comprise the film LENS-MUSE (2020.)