Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. "let's begin/ there are mental facts/ as potent physical facts" begins OBEDIENCE, the most recent collection of poems by nationally renowned poet and visual artist kari edwards... read more

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Gay and Lesbian Studies. "Headlong, harrowing, holy and at times even hilarious, Zack Linmark's poems give us the vibrant technicolor life of crossed time zones and shocked cultures. Manila meets Michael Jackson here.. read more

Poetry. Gay/Lesbian Studies. Award-winning author Michelle Tea ran away to San Francisco's queer and literary scenes in the early 90's, finding a home on the stages of various open mic venues. She self-published a steady stream of very limited edition photocopied chapbooks, all of which are now available in a single volume for the first time in THE BEAUTIFUL.. read more

Poetry. In LAKE SYSTEMS, Cynthia Sailers leads us through painterly landscapes set with unusual amenities and a public -- as diverse as one would find in any urbane American setting - going about their business as if we (the audience) weren't watching... read more

Poetry. Albon's writing is dense and elegant, a kaleidoscope of cues from American culture and folklore... read more

Cultural Writing. Gay and Lesbian Studies. "I REMEMBER is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read" -- Paul Auster... read more

Fiction. Poetry. Asian Studies. The writings in this anthology touch on memory, love, the sorrow of loss, and childhood joy--all viewed through the prism of a unique Asian culture that is the product of American and Spanish colonization. The collection reflects the myriad changes faced by Filipinas in the twenty-first century... read more

Fiction/Gay & Lesbian Studies. In THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU, author Rebecca Brown returns to the obsessive, darkly humorous voice that has earned her comparisons to Samuel Beckett and Djuna Barnes... read more

Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. In EVERYTHING I HAVE IS BLUE are love stories and stories of lives gone wrong; narratives of hope and songs of despair; tales of revenge and chronicles of redemption... read more

Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. The stories in DENNY SMITH use events in the life of Robert Gluck as a ground for the expansion of empathy and intellect. These events include burglary, sex, conversation, reading, humiliation, child raising, and porn... read more

Cultural Writing. Gay Studies. By investigating journals, books, and public records between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack adds a new foundation to the history of homosexuality in the United States... read more

Cultural Writing. Fiction. Poetry. Essays. African American Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. In IN THE LIFE, 29 black authors explore what it means to be doubly different--both black and gay--in modern America. These stories, verses, works of art and theater pieces voice the concerns and aspirations of an often silent minority... read more

Gay and Lesbian Studies. Cultural Writing. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries, manifestoes, reasons to believe"--Dorothy Allison... read more

Poetry. African American Studies. Gay and Lesbian studies. "The poems collected in LAST RIGHTS portray caring, humanness, family or kinship, humor, despair, ordinary problems and unqualified love as they occur in the everyday lives of homosexuals... read more