Landscape with Womb and Paradox, Erica Goss’s second full-length poetry collection, was published by Broadstone Press in January 2026. My debut, full-length collection of poems, Night Court, took three years and thirty submissions before it found a home at Glass Lyre Press, winning the 2016 Lyrebird prize, with […]
As I’ve been making other resource lists, I’ve been slowly tucking all the queer lit journals and mags off to the side so I could give them their own list. Because they/we needed their/our own list. Thus, I present to you: a completely non-exhaustive list of lgbtq2s+ centered journals and lit […]
When we sit down to work together, it isn’t just about placing an image next to a stanza. It is about a “shared attention,” temporary alignment of perception, where the boundary between your inner world and another person’s becomes briefly, thrillingly permeable. It’s a commitment to looking together […]
“Ekphrasis” often conjures up memories of going to a local art museum, sitting in front of a painting, and writing a poem about how the artwork makes you feel, your interpretation of the piece, or the mindset you think the artist was in when they painted it. I […]
When I first became a teacher, I was afraid of teenagers. I’d escaped high school and had no desire to revisit it. I didn’t feel brave enough or tough enough, so I started with preschoolers, imagining that a child’s first classroom would be the gentlest place to learn […]
When my book, The Animal at Your Side, won the Airlie Prize in 2019, it was the culmination of a seven-year submissions process in which I often wondered whether to keep going. I finished the book in 2012 and started sending it out in earnest in 2013. I didn’t […]
Y’all, 2026 is supposedly not a normal year from an astrological perspective. Neptune enters Aries on January 26th for the first time since the 1860s. Saturn follows in February. These two planets then meet on February 20th—a conjunction that hasn’t happened in Aries for centuries. (Chani Nicholas calls […]
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.” —Virginia Woolf In the famous, book-length essay “A Room of One’s Own” (1929), Virginia Woolf comments on the disempowerment faced by women throughout history. The lack of opportunity and resources, she claims, have kept […]
A former pastor of mine argued that the Biblical first act of human speech was poetry: Adam calling Eve “bone of my bone/flesh of my flesh.” This experience of woman’s creation was so spectacular to Adam that couldn’t respond with a simple narrative. There was something supernatural, seemingly […]
Wallace Stevens, one of my favorite poets, published his first book of poetry, Harmonium, when he was 44 and didn’t publish another collection until Ideas of Order, when he was 57. He went on to publish five more collections of poetry. E. B. Moore published her first chapbook of poetry New […]
