Recommended Reading: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
A finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins is published by Copper Canyon Press.
Recommended Reading: Real Life by Brandon Taylor
In his debut novel, Brandon Taylor tells a masterly tale of slights, microaggressions, and silent rage with fluid, poetic prose.
Recommended Reading: 99 Erics by Julia Serano
Serano expertly navigates heavy issues while at the same time embracing the absurd. Whip-smart, fast-paced, and drop-dead hilarious, 99 Erics gives us the lighthearted fun read that we all need right now.
Recommended Reading: The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow
Sophie Yanow’s wise, funny, melancholy graphic novel follows young and queer Sophie and vegan anarchist Zena on a zigzag around contemporary Europe.
Recommended Reading: After Elias by Eddy Boudel Tan
Imagine arriving at a dream Mexican resort for a dream wedding to the man of your dreams, only to learn that, before he can join you, your fiancé has died. So begins this heartbreaking story of idealized dreams and crushing reality by Eddy Boudel Tan.
Recommended Reading: We Want It All, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel
Written in an array of “aesthetic desires,” We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics serves as a vibrant, riotous celebration of trans-liberation.
Recommended Reading: Trans Care by Hil Malatino
Trans Care is a short, smart, sunny, and insightful meditation on how trans people care for one another.
Recommended Reading: My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites by S. Brook Corfman
This collection of sensual, ecological, untitled poems by S.Brook Corfman investigates disaster, wonder, and change.