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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 po...

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Poems touching on religion, sexuality, Southern life, and self-acceptance reveal the poet's growing up, coming out, and becoming an adult in all its joys and sorrows. My Life as Adam is Bryan Borland's full-length debut and was included as one of only five collections of poetry on the American Library Association's inaugural "Over the Rainbow" list of best LGBT books of 2010.

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The autobiographical poems of Steven Reigns' Inheritance introduce us to the gains and losses of a true American family and detail the bequests of the shadows that linger. Reigns glosses over nothing to reveal the secrets that turn suburbia into a coming-of-age battlefield.

Nocturnal Omissions is an unabashedly erotic, romantic, sometimes even philosophical dialogue between poets Gavin Geoffrey Dillard and Eric Norris on love, sex and art's glorious life and afterlife. You will never pick up a pen, a lover, or a book of poetry quite in the same way again.

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.

The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Japan and elsewhere), Collective Brightness gathers over 100 established and emerging contemporary LGBTIQ poets writing from and about various faiths, religions and spiritual traditions. Says Rigoberto González of National Book Critics Circle, "Collective Brightness sheds a shining lig...

In Fat Girl, Jessie Carty asks us to strip and stand naked in front of a mirror. These poems are our own reflection. Bittersweet in nature, they are self-perception. They size us up and tell the truth: that man or woman, we all struggle to feel at home in our own skins.

Musical notes, paint pigment, and lives of the heart converge in fantastical worlds of invention. Nicolas Destino's adventures through relationship, music, and visual artrevitalize the lyric and re-imagine the ordinary. This is Heartwrecks.

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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.

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In his fourth poetry collection, Road Work Ahead, Raymond Luczak sets out on a turbulent journey after ending a 15-year relationship. As he meets kindred souls on his travels, Luczak wonders what it means to love again. He opens the suitcase of his heart in far-flung cities and points beyond. His poems, pungent with musk and ache, will open yours too.

Unable to accept complacency in suburban life, Stephen S. Mills transports himself to dank prison cells, international executions, and the minds of murderers that unravel through the kinky underbelly of America. He comes full-circle back to the bedroom of a young, gay couple whose everyday lives surprise us in a flawed and fascinating world. These poems channel the hushed tones, loving whispers, and lusty moans of a generation deluged in an un...

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With a beauty purged of sweetness, the voices of Butcher's Sugar sing of the sublime in the debased, violence and desire, the truth of whatever is "rank with the carcass of mystery." Moving from childhood through adulthood, these poems re-inhabit and reclaim myths about the body and the self.

Was it Jung who speculated that alcoholism might be an attempt at a material solution for a spiritual problem? Kaveh Akbar seems able to contain both-he's a demotic, as well as a spiritual, poet (the only type of either I trust). Each word in this little book might rise up from somewhere deep in the earth, but they turn into stars." - Nick Flynn "In Islam prayer is not transactional, poetry is not divorced from the quotidian and portraiture is...

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 trut...