Without Setting Fire

by Emerson Whitney       This book is the black of a wide open mouth. There’s no other place to start, really, just agape.   I like this idea of an open mouth, lips at liberty, the reckless brush strokes of a painting, open and possible.   Here’s the opposite, category like a clenched jaw.   An endless portrayal: mirrors, ace bandages, bathrooms, doe … Continue reading Without Setting Fire

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson Now Available: Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson Nightboat Books, 2013 Poetry, LGBT Studies | $27.95 paperback, 544 pages, 7 x 10 in Publication Date: 2013 ISBN: 978-1-937658-10-6 Order via University Press of New England (Nightboat’s distributor) … Continue reading Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics