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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDear Time,

    By Danez Smith
    now married, i’m in you different, in love
    deeper, legally, under god and in front of my mama,

    i know …
  • Poem
    By Jim Cory
    Their appeal all
    feeling what the mouth
    alone manages among
    tongue teeth & lung Breath moist & slow
    measured…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Stephanie Burt on queer time, glass dildos, and making it up as you go. 
  • Poem
    By Jacques J. Rancourt
    I dressed as a stag: headpiece
    of antlers, fabric flowers

    hot-glued to a harness, my ass
    hanging out of…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDear Sister Agnes,

    By Jacques J. Rancourt
              Can I still call you
                        Emily? Not long after
    we last saw each other, I too changed

              my name. Dropped …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFebruary 14

    By Jesse Nathan
    Going to the Russian bathhouse on Innes
    to lie naked on a shelf in the steam
    while the hatted man
    swanning…
  • Article
    By Daniel Felsenthal

    Dario Bellezza scandalized Italy with unabashedly queer poetry about cruising and AIDS. Nearly thirty years after his death, a new translation brings his work into English. 

    A black-and-white photograph of Dario Bellezza looking down into the camera.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineA Force of Nature

    By Paul Tran
    Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
    Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
    A stranger…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSissyCessful

    By Oak Morse
    Got to gala   glaze lavender my pansy        hoist my symphony

    little gal Fauntleroy     in ultra dire

    cootie yuntra…
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