The Camels Louisa had already run into the ocean.Rosie and I were walking down slowerwhen a woman pulls up in a truckwith two camels. Single-humped, almosttoo bright to look at, each tuft of fura magnesium flare that should hurt human eyes,but doesn’t. One camel rises on two legs,picks Rosie up and holds her. Rosie and the camellook at each other. “He never does this,”the woman … Continue reading Two Poems by Miller Oberman
“You blur, dematerialize as I approach. I stand behind you, close enough to sniff your perfume…” Continue reading Two Poems by Natasha Dennerstein
“I am / neither the source of all your ills, / nor a metaphor for something / sans else. Not a path I chose nor a choice / I lacked” Continue reading Three Poems by M Robin Cook
EOAGH Books, March 2021 Poetry / Transgender Studies / Holocaust Studies ISBN 978-1-7923-0722-5 $20 Available from Asterism (link coming soon). To order directly from EOAGH Books: The Book of Anna is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the secret police. This genre-defying … Continue reading The Book of Anna, by Joy Ladin
EOAGH Books, 2015 Poetry / Trans Genre / Transgender Studies ISBN 978-1-4951-8614-1 Winner, Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry, 2016 Foreword by Trace Peterson Introduction by Rob Halpern Order from Asterism (link coming soon). To order directly from the Publisher: kari edwards’ succubus in my pocket is a masterwork against mastering, a tarrying recursive, fretting over how to write from life when life is so … Continue reading succubus in my pocket, by kari edwards