a body more tolerable

By jaye simpson
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Ferocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of view

a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful ...

A Fate Worse Than Death

By Nisha Patel
Categories: LGBTQ+ Literature, Poetry, Disability Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Poems that interrogate the complexities of disability, based on the author's evaluation of her own medical records

A Fate Worse Than Death is a stunning poetic investigation of the worthiness of disabled ...

More Sure

By A. Light Zachary
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

A book of poems and interruptions, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives.

In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power ...

Queer Little Nightmares

Edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Poetry, Fiction, Anthologies, LGBTQ+ Literature, Lesbian Literature

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout ...

Beast at Every Threshold

By Natalie Wee
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A formidable collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of "otherness" through folklore and myth.

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural ...

Swollening

By Jason Purcell
Categories: Health, Disability Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Poetry

A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope.

Jason Purcell's debut collection of poems rests at the intersection ...

Iron Goddess of Mercy

By Larissa Lai
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry

Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dances with them ...

nedi nezu (Good Medicine)

By Tenille K. Campbell
Categories: Poetry, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

Indigenous Voices Award finalist

A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country.

nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous ...

Burning Sugar

By Cicely Belle Blain
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, Poetry
Series: VS. Books

The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation.

In this incendiary debut collection, activist ...

Render

By Sachiko Murakami
Categories: Women's Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Governor General's Literary Award finalist

Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience.

Render (v. tr. ): to submit, as for consideration; ...