Recommended Reading: Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams
A finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams is published by Penguin Books. The editor is Paul Slovak and the agent is Bill Clegg. The winner
Recommended Reading: Permanent Volta by Rosie Stockton
A finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, Permanent Volta by Rosie Stockton is published by Nightboat Books. The editor is Stephen Motika. The winner of this prize
Recommended Reading: Punks by John Keene
A finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, Punks: New and Selected Poems by John Keene is published by The Song Cave. The editors are Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal and
Recommended Reading: The Monster I Am Today, by Kevin Simmonds
A finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse by Kevin Simmonds is published by Northwestern University Press. The winner
Recommended Reading: The Prophets, by Robert Jones Jr.
In The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr. tells a story of love between two enslaved young men on a nineteenth-century plantation in the American South; a love so profound and impossible to hide that the other
Recommended Reading: Silver Beach, by Claire Cox
In Claire Cox’s debut novel, Silver Beach, three women—a mother and her two daughters—suffer a loss that changes the course of their lives. The two sisters, Mara and Shannon, were separated and raised differently—Mara, with
Recommended Reading: A Natural History of Transition, by Callum Angus
In A Natural History of Transition, a collection of short fiction by Callum Angus, the journeys of transitioning are seldom one-way, one-time, or linear, but something more fluid and often transcending the realm of possibility.
Recommended Reading: Radiant Fugitives, by Nawaaz Ahmed
Radiant Fugitives is a radiant, rare book, exploring all the contradictions in the life of Seema, an upper-class, liberal political consultant, a lesbian from a conservative Muslim family. She is an Indian American who is