Poetry

Diving Into The Wreck

In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim―to discover―what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. “I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.” These provocative poems move with…

Fiction Nonfiction Photography Poetry

Disavowals: Or Cancelled Confessions

“Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, “constructor and explorer of objects,” photographer, and “queer freak” who invented her life by flaunting the interchangability of roles and playing with the ambivalence of identity. Whether feigning vulnerability on the arm of her lover and stepsister Suzanne Malherbe aka Marcel Moore (“the other…

Fiction Nonfiction Poetry

Survivalism for Hedonists

Survivalism for Hedonists is a collection of poetic experiments, using digital randomization and cut-up techniques to explore how exploding language might move us closer to representing cataclysmic life events—and how we survive them. “… lyrically prismatic poems that are tenderhearted, fierce, vulnerable, and exposed – in the reconfiguration, they uncover some core survival tactics for…

Fiction History Poetry

There Are Trans People Here

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt’s writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for…