Saints and Sinners 2021 and 2022 New Poetry from the Festival

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ISBN 13 : 9781608640492
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Saints and Sinners 2021 and 2022 New Poetry from the Festival by : Brad Richard

Download or read book Saints and Sinners 2021 and 2022 New Poetry from the Festival written by Brad Richard and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints and Sinners is an annual celebration that takes place in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans each spring. The Festival includes writing workshops, readings, panel discussions, literary walking tours, and a variety of special events. We also aim to inspire the written word through our short fiction contest, and our annual Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award sponsored by Rob Byrnes. Each year we induct individuals to our Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is intended to recognize people for their dedication to LGBTQ literature. Selected members have shown their passion for our literary community through various avenues including writing, promotion, publishing, editing, teaching, bookselling, and volunteerism. This collection includes a varied selection of poetry from the 2021 and 2022 festivals including the winners and finalists for the festival's annual poetry contest.

Dear Yusef

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819501352
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Dear Yusef by : John Murillo

Download or read book Dear Yusef written by John Murillo and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet Yusef Komunyakaa has had on poets, educators, and readers worldwide. The anthology brings together creative and critical offerings from fellow poets, former students, literary entities, and other admirers. There are emerging and established voices—from previously unpublished writers to Pulitzer Prize winning poets. Together these pieces honor one of the most influential writers of the last half century, one, it turns out, who is as beloved for his teaching as he is celebrated for his creative work. Contributors include Terrance Hayes, Sharon Olds, Carolyn Forché, Toi Derricotte, and Martín Espada, among others. Dear Yusef affirms Komunyakaa's transformative influence, showcasing how his mentoring has ignited creativity, nurtured passion, and fostered a sense of belonging among countless individuals. Through the artistry of these testimonials, we witness the transformative power of poetry and the enduring legacy of a true literary icon.

Her Birth and Later Years

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819500178
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Her Birth and Later Years by : Irena Klepfisz

Download or read book Her Birth and Later Years written by Irena Klepfisz and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023) Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022) A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For fifty years, Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost Yiddish writer, a Palestinian boy in Gaza, and various people in her life. In her introduction to Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Adrienne Rich wrote: "[Klepfisz's] sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless." Her Birth and Later Years was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Anatomy of Want

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Publisher : Queer Mojo
ISBN 13 : 9781608641383
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)

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Book Synopsis Anatomy of Want by : Daniel W. K. Lee

Download or read book Anatomy of Want written by Daniel W. K. Lee and published by Queer Mojo. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel W.K. Lee's first collection of poetry is a study on desire's limbs, its breath, its unchecked tendencies on creatures--mortal and divine--who dare to love or be loved. Eros to agape, melancholia to saudade, he finds fruit in these conditions and exposes with carefully selected words and deliberate silence, our hunger. DANIEL W.K. LEE is a third generation refugee. Born in Kuching, Malaysia to an ethnic Cantonese family who fled wars in China and then Vietnam, he is currently working on escaping to his next city--New Orleans--with his head-turning whippet, Camden.

If We Were Electric

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820358088
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis If We Were Electric by : Patrick Earl Ryan

Download or read book If We Were Electric written by Patrick Earl Ryan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If We Were Electric’s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities, about people on the outside who don’t fit in, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. In “Feux Follet,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again.

She who

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis She who by : Judy Grahn

Download or read book She who written by Judy Grahn and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jesuits

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226199
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jesuits by : Markus Friedrich

Download or read book The Jesuits written by Markus Friedrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the events of modern history. From the Counter-Reformation to the ascent of Francis I as the first Jesuit pope, The Jesuits presents an intimate look at one of the most important religious orders not only in the Catholic Church, but also the world. Markus Friedrich describes an organization that has deftly walked a tightrope between sacred and secular involvement and experienced difficulties during changing times, all while shaping cultural developments from pastoral care and spirituality to art, education, and science. Examining the Jesuits in the context of social, cultural, and world history, Friedrich sheds light on how the order shaped the culture of the Counter-Reformation and participated in the establishment of European empires, including missionary activity throughout Asia and in many parts of Africa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He also explores the place of Jesuits in the New World and addresses the issue of Jesuit slaveholders. The Jesuits often tangled with the Roman Curia and the pope, resulting in their suppression in 1773, but the order returned in 1814 to rise again to a powerful position of influence. Friedrich demonstrates that the Jesuit fathers were not a monolithic group and he considers the distinctive spiritual legacy inherited by Pope Francis. With its global scope and meticulous attention to archival sources and previous scholarship, The Jesuits illustrates the heterogeneous, varied, and contradictory perspectives of this famed religious organization.

Banged-Up Heart

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Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938288866
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Banged-Up Heart by : Shirley Melis

Download or read book Banged-Up Heart written by Shirley Melis and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banged-Up Heart by Shirley Melis is an intimate and clear-eyed account of finding love late and losing it early—and of the strength it takes to fall madly in love a second time, be forced to relinquish that love too soon, and yet choose to love again. When her husband of thirty years dies suddenly, Shirley Melis is convinced she will never find another man like Joe. Then she meets John, a younger man who tells her during their first conversation that he has lived for many years with a rare but manageable cancer. She is swept off her feet in a whirlwind courtship, and within months, made brave by the early death of a friend's husband, she asks him to marry her! What follows is a year-long odyssey of travel and a growing erotic and creative partnership—until a mysterious bump on John's forehead proves to be one of several tumors in his brain and spine. The nine months that follow are filled with a life-threatening infection, three brain surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy. Two years and one week after their wedding, John dies at the age of fifty-nine. More than just a love story or a memoir of mourning, Banged-Up Heart comes down solidly on the side of life. It takes you deep inside an ordinary woman, her deeply felt grief butting up against her desire for more than companionship: passion, sexual fulfillment, and self-realization. It bears eloquent witness to the wild trust it takes to fall madly in love and risk profound loss—a second time. Ultimately, it shows that it is possible to dance with a banged-up heart.

Sweetbitter

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ISBN 13 : 9781951979287
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (792 download)

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Book Synopsis Sweetbitter by : Stacey Balkun

Download or read book Sweetbitter written by Stacey Balkun and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacey Balkun's debut full-length collection, Sweetbitter, is an examination of youth, gender, sexuality, and yearning at an atomic level. The collection reads like a fever dream as Balkun uncovers the radioactive darkness that hides beneath the earth's surface and how it seeps into the lives of those who come near. The speaker takes us with them into the wilderness, wanting the world to be perceived differently, begging to be seen as more. From sapphic longing and poisoned baptisms to contaminated bodies and the gendered erosion of autonomy, Sweetbitter is the product of a restless coming-of-age story. In it, puberty is swimming in a toxic pond and recklessness is disguised as control. With Balkun's hazy, dream-like storytelling, the speaker is a wild creature challenging the social confines of being human, being girl. Sweetbitter is a gripping, sometimes suspenseful, poetry collection that leaves you hungry for more.

My Diva

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Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 0299231232
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis My Diva by : Michael Montlack

Download or read book My Diva written by Michael Montlack and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross to Queen Elizabeth I, Julia Child, and Princess Leia, these divas have been sister, alter ego, fairy godmother, or model for survival to gay men and the closeted boys they once were. And anyone—straight or gay, young or old, male or female—who ever needed a muse, or found one, will see their own longing mirrored here as well. These witty and poignant short essays explore reasons for diva-worship as diverse as the writers themselves. My Diva offers both depth and glamour as it pays tribute with joy, intelligence, and fierce, fierce love. Finalist, Lambda Book Award for LGBT Anthology, Lambda Literary Foundation

Walking Into Lightning

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ISBN 13 : 9781732952126
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking Into Lightning by : Ellen LaFleche

Download or read book Walking Into Lightning written by Ellen LaFleche and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hypermobilities

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ISBN 13 : 9781946031938
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis Hypermobilities by : Ellen Samuels

Download or read book Hypermobilities written by Ellen Samuels and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypermobilities is a verse-memoir in haiku, written over two years of intense engagement with the medical system. Samuels composed these poems in her head while strapped down within MRI machines, in the infusion center with IV needles snaking her arms, waiting and waiting in white-walled rooms. They are necessarily short, to be written by memory without pen or screen. A selection of these poems eventually formed into this collection, named after the hallmark sign of her genetic condition: joint hypermobility.Advance Praise: "A wondrous, nonlinear, potent proof of life, and Ellen Samuels has counted every syllable, composing in her mind. 'Draw a star/ where it hurts the most.' Each poem bursts and expands beyond its scale, moving you through a measured wormhole of body and life. 'I am the garden/ Eve never took back,' Samuels writes, 'Fist with-/in the bone, rising.' Grounded in a practice and form that began for the poet out of everyday necessity, Samuels applies pressure on language to create 'solid beings,' offering them to us now as HYPERMOBILITIES. I love this book." - Oliver Baez Bendorf, author of 'Advantages of Being Evergreen'

Eruptions of Inanna

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ISBN 13 : 9781643620763
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Eruptions of Inanna by : Judy Grahn

Download or read book Eruptions of Inanna written by Judy Grahn and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Path-breaking lesbian storyteller & scholar Judy Grahn explores poetry written over four thousand years ago on the life and loves of the great goddess Inanna

Daddy

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Publisher : NYQ Books
ISBN 13 : 9781630450595
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Daddy by : Michael Montlack

Download or read book Daddy written by Michael Montlack and published by NYQ Books. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rabbit Ears

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ISBN 13 : 9781630450151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Rabbit Ears by : Joel Allegretti

Download or read book Rabbit Ears written by Joel Allegretti and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Media Studies. RABBIT EARS: TV POEMS is a poetic tribute to the medium that has influenced America's tastes, opinions, politics, language, and lifestyles: television. Within its pages, you'll read narrative poems, persona poems, poems that employ found text, formal poems, prose poems, haiku and senryu, and poems that incorporate non-poetic forms, like the interview and screenplay. Edited by Joel Allegretti, the anthology contains 129 poems by 130 nationally known and emerging poets including Billy Collins, Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, Aram Saroyan, Timothy Liu, Tony Hoagland, and Hal Sirowitz. The title, named for the pair of indoor TV antennae developed in the 1950s, comes courtesy of former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. These poems explore a robust array of subjects: the history and early days of TV, sit-coms, children's programming, the news, horror and science fiction, detective shows, soap operas and romance, reality TV, and commercials, among others. The poems are funny, poignant, witty, mysterious, and educational. In short, the poems are much like TV itself.

Double Exposure

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632202069
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Book Synopsis Double Exposure by : Bridget Birdsall

Download or read book Double Exposure written by Bridget Birdsall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Alyx Atlas was raised as a boy, yet she knows something others don’t. She’s a girl. And after her dad dies, it becomes painfully obvious that she must prove it now—to herself and to the world. Born with ambiguous genitalia, Alyx has always felt a little different. But it’s after she sustains a terrible beating behind a 7-Eleven that she and her mother pack up their belongings and move from California to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to start a new life—and Alyx begins over again, this time as a girl. Alyx quickly makes new friends, earns a spot on the girls’ varsity basketball team, and for the first time in her life feels like she fits in. That is, until her prowess on the court proves too much for the jealous, hotheaded Pepper Pitmani, who sets out to uncover Alyx’s secret. A dangerous game of Truth or Dare exposes Alyx’s difference and will disqualify her entire basketball team from competing in the state championships unless Alyx can prove, once and for all, that she is a girl. But will Alyx find the courage to stand up for the truth of her personhood, or will she do what she’s always done—run away? Whatever she decides, she knows there’s much more at stake than a championship win. A stunning debut young adult novel from Bridget Birdsall, Double Exposure brings to light complex gender issues, teenage insecurities, and overcoming all obstacles. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Syllble: Collection of Collaboratively Written Short Stories 2017

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ISBN 13 : 9781983341304
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)

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Book Synopsis Syllble: Collection of Collaboratively Written Short Stories 2017 by : Logan Akinmade

Download or read book Syllble: Collection of Collaboratively Written Short Stories 2017 written by Logan Akinmade and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syllble: Collection of Collaboratively Written Short Stories is something new that was built out of a process to bring more opportunities that can empower all writers of the future. This is the inaugural collection of short fiction stories that have been fully collaborated through many authors. The belief that fiction is an individual affair is what we are challenging. Collaborating with other writers and creative types is much more entertaining, it yields more meaningful and faster returns. Using the brain power of two to four more minds to look at a specific topic and issue brings richer results. In your hands this is what we bring you - three collaborated short stories."Syllble is a creative community that believes in the power of collaboration whether you are a writer, an editor, an illustrator or an individual with stories, together with our creativity fully expressed in an unfettered way we can unlock the magic in this world and inspire people everywhere.