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In the lurid and ash-bound dreamscapes of Ian Felice's The Moon Over Edgar, sleep conjures the dangerous and darling vertex of surprise. These linked sonnets chart the uncanny pursuits of an insurance salesman named Edgar, inviting us into realms of the strange-fairy tales, prophecies, premonitions-with a powerful sense of beauty and candor, ultimately delivering a fantastic and frightening world of infinite possibility. By the book's end, we ...

A river's edge, if approached too close, can sweep a body beyond itself." In The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!, Miah Jeffra perfects apostrophe as canticle, a host of heroes beckoning the reader a knee deeper into the waters of another selfhood, Madonna, Mary Shelley, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Plato, and Jeffra's mother among them. At once gossamer and gauze, Jeffra explores the nature of gender, sexuality, aesthetics, and love, taking a tiny ha...

Inspired by Rita Dove's groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah, Connor & Seal is a masterful queering of poetic lineage. With oracular grace and whimsy, these poems innovate the public and private axes of gay love in a tumescent future. We meet Connor, a native Nebraskan and fledgling grant writer, and Seal, a financial analyst from Kingston, Jamaica, as they flummox the space between desire and demise, "the sun again a big orange pill / stuck in th...

From the first, devastating poem ("i touch myself & do not leak gold"), George Abraham's poems bristle with alchemy, a narrative of love, history, family, and Palestine that pulses with longing. Juxtaposed with Leila Abdelrazaq's startlingly evocative artwork, this book is a fearless, riveting excavation of self and other." - Hala Alyan

Robert Siek's Manhattan is a city in distress, one that resembles, at times, a zombie apocalypse: 'a herd / of walking dead crowding you, / mouths open and moaning, two step on your toes.' 'Does anyone ever get used to this?' he asks. Siek loads his poems with the nightmarish grittiness of urban life. His lines expand, stretch to the limit, until it feels like they're going to split at the seams and it's all going to spill out, a blood-and-gut...

In the fall of 2016, Bryan Borland embarked on a book tour that took him across the United States. Set against the backdrop of a divisive presidential campaign with an unanticipated victor, an explosion in New York, a historic World Series, and a maturing relationship at home, Borland navigates the ways we become tourists in our own lives.

Anthony Frame, by trade, is an exterminator. Frame is, also by trade, a poet. Frame writes what he knows, inviting us into the delicate world of pests others pay to have extinguished. What is not expected is the forgiveness for which he begs, how all these creatures live and die and live again so vividly in these pages.

I wish I'd had this book when I was 22 and making mistakes all over the world. I might have made fewer, might have made more, but I might have loved myself better the whole time. Bold, wise, percussive delight-Joseph Osmundson brings to the page the candor of the empty bed, and the full one, too. Inside/Out is like if Maggie Nelson had written Bluets about fucking men." - Alexander Chee, author of Queen of the Night, a New York Times Editors' ...

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These poems are love letters to manhattans, meteor showers, and mononucleosis, to friends hundreds of miles apart, to the great love I sleep with. I didn't go get an MFA, I got married instead. All of you, your books, your reviews and criticisms, I read you and learn daily. Some I am even lucky enough to work with at Sibling Rivalry Press. This education is worth more to me than any program I could have attended. So, thank you, for your wit, y...

Andrews pries loose all the bitterness of what it means to come of age as a gay man in the south and laces sweetness in the wounds whenever possible. These poems are an elegy to what is given up and an ode to what is discovered. In crisp lines and haunting images, Andrews' voice rings true. - Sandy Longhorn

Terrorized by her high school classmates, she now has the chance to save their lives, in this saga about a female Holden CaulfieldNa haunting, memorable story of twisted, dangerous grace.

Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. Issue 03 of Assaracus features poetry by Antler, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Bryan Borland, Steven Cordova, Carl Miller Daniels, Jeremy Halinen, Terry Jaensch, Scott Wiggerman, Chuck Willman, and Nicholas YB Wong, plus ten poets on James Franco (Shane Allison, Bradley Bentz, Perry Brass, Philip Clark, Alex Dimitrov, Jory Micke...

Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. Issue 1 of Assaracus features poetry by Shane Allison, Jay Burodny, Gavin Dillard, Christopher Hennessy, Matthew Hittinger, James Kangas, Raymond Luczak, Frank J Miles, Stephen Mills, and Eric Norris. Edited by poet Bryan Borland, author of the American Library Association-honored My Life as Adam.

Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. Issue 2 of Assaracus features poetry by Philip F. Clark, Collin Kelley, Michael Klein, Ron Mohring, Evan J. Peterson, Steven Riel, Sam Sax, Robert Siek, Christopher Soden, and Wonder Dave. Edited by Bryan Borland.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. The poems of BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the speaker a literal refugee from a torn homeland, or a refugee from his own skin, burning with the heat of awakening eroticism. In this world, we're all refugees from something. As two-time National Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard says: "Ocean manages to imbue the desperation of his being alive--with a savage beauty. It is not just that Ocean can...

Matthew Hittinger's Skin Shift assembles a metamorphosis taxonomy in poems that spider spin, that nimbus twirl into Wonder Woman and leap with the Aboriginal kangaroo woman, that escape from a sub-trunk with Houdini and seduce like the Amazon's pink river dolphin man. Traditional forms morph into experimental narratives, lyrics and dramatic monologues that present an invitation to slip inside the skins of others and to experience the mythologi...

At its heart, TEACHING A MAN TO UNSTICK HIS TAIL is a book about relationships, both with those closest to us and with ourselves. As Allison Joseph, editor of CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW says, "Ralph Hamilton's poetry is a tapestry stitched from flesh and beauty, wound and salve. Words become electric through this poet's skin and mouth. This is a poetry of unflinching honesty, of pauses and silences and songs that leave the reader barely breathing. Th...

I don't even know what to call Jane Summer's astounding Erebus-it's that gorgeous, that transcendent, except to say that with this love-letter/elegy/anti-elegy about a real friend in a world of counterfeits, she has invented a kind of poetry that is anxious and wild and completely unexpected. The book is hybrid in structure-with citations and photos and its scrap from a musical score-but it also represents the hybrid nature of our collective p...