Loria Taylor's SOB chronicles the manic metronome of the quest for psychological stability. Malingering, funny, and self-aware, these poems are Plath on Prozac.

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, Loria

Poetry

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Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by multiple gay poets. Issue 05 of Assaracus features poetry by Perry Brass, Guillermo Filice Castro, Vicente M. Foix (translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel), Christopher Gaskins, Michael Hathaway, Matthew R. Loney, Jeff Mann, Jory M. Mickelson, Erik Schuckers, Kat Smalley, and David-Glen Smith. Issue 05 features cover art by Paul Pinkman. Assaracus is edited by Bryan Borland, author of the American Library Association-honored My Life as Adam. Proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.

Assaracus Issue 05: A Journal of Gay Poetry

Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by a small number of established and emerging gay poets. Issue 06 of Assaracus features poetry by Dustin Brookshire, James Cihlar, Nicolas Destino, D. Gilson, Charles Jensen, Raymond Luczak, Glenn Allen Phillips, Andy Quan, Jack Veasey, Jeff Walt, and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé. Issue 06 also features a poem for Ian Young by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard and cover art by Seth Ruggles Hiler. (www.siblingrivalrypress.com)

Assaracus Issue 06: A Journal of Gay Poetry

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From the indie press that brings you the Library Journal-honored Assaracus comes Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry. Lady Business features a substantial set of poems from each of twelve lesbian poets: Sally Bellerose, Brit Blalock, Cassandra Christenson, Marty Correia, Teresa De La Cruz, Julie R. Enszer, Gina R. Evers, Andy Izenson, Ronna Magy, Mary Meriam, Maureen Seaton, and Jan Steckel. Lady Business features cover art by Bil Donovan. Proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press. Lady Business, from Sibling Rivalry Press, features some of the most talented and diverse voices from established and emerging female poets. Across the collection, the poems' different speakers cope with internal struggles, come out, fall in love (and lust), run to and from family, and live ordinary and magnificent lives. Editor Bryan Borland says of the collection: "A collective history emerges as you read these poems. Lady Business is a representation of the American lesbian experience over the last century."

Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry

There are 525,600 minutes in a non-leap year. That makes 31,536,000 seconds in every year. So: 31,536,000 divided by 248,300 comes to one sexual assault every 127 seconds, or about one every two minutes. In 2006, Dustin Brookshire was raped by a former boyfriend. In the months that followed, he began writing as a means of coping with the psychological aftermath. The result is To the One Who Raped Me, a bold debut chapbook of taboo truths and the too-often unspoken that chronicles Dustin's journey from victim to survivor. Proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.

To the One Who Raped Me

Brookshire, Dustin

Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry and one of Library Journal's "Best New Magazines," features a substantial collection of work by a small number of established and emerging gay poets. Issue 07 of Assaracus features poetry by Jonathan Bracker, Jason Contrucci, Sebastian Doherty, David Keali'i, Dean Kostos, Anthony Lioi, Philip Matthews, Ian James Morgan, Stephen Potter, Patrick Stevens, and Peter Weltner. Issue 07 features a cover photograph donated from a collection called "Hidden in the Open," curated by Trent Kelley. Proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.

Assaracus Issue 07: A Journal of Gay Poetry

Fire Island, Bette Davis, reincarnation, the movies, Henry James, the Russian baths, being lonely in public, following strangers, washing a corpse, the FDR Drive and the racetrack all figure predominantly in Michael Klein's The Talking Day - a talking book of poems that speak to the terrible beauty of the world we live in and the world we live without. "I'm dumb about the world. To me, it always looks haunted" is the first line of the first poem in this book and by the end, that haunting has turned fear into grace.

The Talking Day

Klein, Michael

Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry and one of Library Journal's "Best New Magazines," features a substantial collection of work by a small number of established and emerging gay poets. Issue 08 of Assaracus features poetry by John Barton, Walter Beck, Charlie Bondhus, Allen Clark, Nick Comilla, Jim Cory, Carlton Fisher, Edmund Miller, Joseph Rathgeber, Bill Trub, Steve Turtell, and Ocean Vuong, Issue 08 features cover art by Noel Dean Doss. Proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.

Assaracus Issue 08: A Journal of Gay Poetry

With the ghosts of Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Sappho, and Walt Whitman leading the way, How to Kill Poetry showcases a highly selective overview of Western civilization poetic development from its oral traditions to the silence of pixels. The narrative then jumps 200 years into the future where the unfortunate consequences of global warming create a dramatic backdrop against which poetry--if it is to have any redeeming value--must survive.

How to Kill Poetry

Luczak, Raymond

The poems in Render are snapshots of a family in crisis, infidelity, sexual discovery, and 40 years of pop culture from a gay poet growing up in the American South. Vanessa Daou says, "In Kelley's elegiac, soaring series of poems, we are seduced by his language, invited to join him on his raw and ribald traipsing across the wilderness of his memory. What is rendered is as intimate yet as exposed as your neighbor's lingerie strung up on a clothesline."

Render

Kelley, Collin

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