As always, our poets are a mix of new writers and established, including some who are nominees for the Lambda Literary poetry prize, Kenyon Review Prize winners and recipients of the Academy of American Poets Prize. They’ve been published in exciting and mainstream publications, including The Paris Review, The Volta, Stone of Madness, The Rialto, Ambit, Impossible Archteype and Poetry.
This issue brings the varied and fascinating world of LGBTQ+ to life. We can’t wait for you to read it.
So, drum roll please, here’s your fourteen poems:
- Invocation by Chad Bennett
- Blueballs by David Nash
- An Episode of Planet Earth on the Dying Habitat of Dyke Bars by Carson Wolfe
- Instructions to Get Over Your Ex by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
- elegy for a broken condom by Jonathan Kinsman
- The Red Onion by Maisie Lawrence
- Super Blue Blood Moon Valentine by Andre Bagoo
- The Storm Arrives by Jay G Ying
- Slow Down by Ben Kline
- Icarus Asks by Jory Mickelson
- For the sake of argument by Raye Hendrix
- One Night Stand by Randall Mann
- Postcard from Killarney by Rosamund Taylor
- Tiny House by Mark Ward