Walter Holland

2016 brought with it some excellent poetry books, both within and outside the LGBT community. I had the pleasure of reviewing several of these books and reading a few others at leisure. I thought I might share where my reading interests took me last year. One of the most interesting books was Annah Anti-Palindrome's "DNA Hymn," a first book of her poetry from Sibling Rivalry Press. Michelle Tea calls it a "phenomenal work of embrace and exorcism . . .Annah Anti-Palindrome has

Readings: 35 min Lecture: 21 min. After 30 Years: The Effects of Stonewall on Gay Poetry Thanks Dennis. First let me say that I have no doubt that “gay poetry” and “gay literature” are cultural and historical artifacts, labels based in our present contemporary moment. In several decades, “gay poetry” and “lesbian poetry” will be absorbed into the American cannon as part of a poetic of gender and multiculturalism, which dominated this late phase of the twentieth century. Histo