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  • 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-magazineEileen

    By Olive Franklin
    Loved you since I was little, on the playground break-time
    -brawled with you and your mismatched cuffs…
  • Poem
    By Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    This love dares not speak its name
    in some states
    until your eyes say it
    on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale…
  • Poem
    By Richard Blanco
    After my third shot of tequila / chased by a lime
    sour as my rant: fuck this-fuck that-fuck them-fuck…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Garth Greenwell on shame, small acts of love, and the patch of snow inside us.
  • Poem
    By Jake Skeets
    Clouds in his throat,
    six months' worth.
    He bodies into me
    half cosmos, half coyote.
    We become night
    on Bread…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Leandra Michaels

    By Brandon Young
    My father said to me once            your only choices are            the factories. Oil stains or
    the selfsame bruises.            No longings for the night.            Looking back I think of
    things I could have done            differently ... Sure,            it could have all been different,
    but what’s the use now, when             all...
  • Poem

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    Kimberley Johnson

    By Brandon Young
    Oh, don’t worry, we will let           our hair down tonight—
    but first we must remember           on this stage, the queen
    we lost, who they killed           not too far from here
    just...
  • Poem
    By Alexis De Veaux
    I pray for us
    as evening  glides over
    implore the gods
    pray for us         pray
    for this breathing
    planet the           milky way
    dreams us
    into galaxy
    no need for heaven this
    is how it started:
    way out beyond         we
    below
    the sweet of your lips
    dipped in promise
    anxieties claim us
    bark and skin
    what we...
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    the black dykes at 40

    By R. Erica Doyle
    letting  the words fly like smoke uncurling from our mouths
    we lie in bed with dykes ten years our junior, make
    pot heaps to share, sleep in the same flannel sheets,
    plot colored artist collaborations underground and not top 40,
    draw the constellations from...
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