Details of the Current Subscription (2024)
Gay Girl Prayers
by Emily Austin
The extreme level of sass in Emily Austin’s Gay Girl Prayers does not mean that this collection is irreverent. On the contrary, in rewriting Bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities, Austin invites readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation for the lives and perspectives of “strange women.”
impact statement
by Jody Chan
A revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism.
Dayo
by Marc Perez
Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who exists in a place not their own. A wanderer, migrant worker, exile or simply a stranger. At its core, the poems in Dayo interrogate whether belonging can exist in a society suffused with violence.
echolalia echolalia
by Jane Shi
Jane Shi’s relentlessly inventive poetics are a means to vociferously proclaim a diasporic, queer and disabled self-hood. Here is a lyric of commitment and comedy that critiques ongoing inequities, dehumanizing ideologies and the body politic. Here are playful and transformative narratives of friendship and estrangement.
Heliotropia
by Manahil Bandukwala
Writer Mikko Harvey says it best: these love poems “are curious, heartfelt, joy-filled expeditions: through rainstorms and supernovas, alternate realities and past lives, or sometimes simply through the park on a walk with a dear friend. Intergalactic yet deeply earthly, intertextual yet wonderfully original, Heliotropia is a place ‘where fear collides / with the little shield of love’—and love prevails.”
DADDY
by Jake Byrne
If you reloop trauma enough, does it make a danceable rhythm? If you get lost in physical sensation enough, does that make you free? DADDY is a powerful look at patriarchy, intergenerational trauma, and queer desire that seeks an unravelling of systems of control, back to a state of vulnerability.
South Side of a Kinless River
by Marilyn Dumont
South Side of a Kinless River wrestles with concepts of Métis identity in a nation and territory that would rather erase it. Métis identity, land loss, sexual relationships between Indigenous women and European men, and midwifery by Indigenous women of the nascent settler communities figure into these poems. They add up to a Métis woman’s prairie history, one that helps us feel the violence in how those contributions and wisdoms have been suppressed and denied.
Special Subscriber Perk
The 2024 gift is a hand-knit bookmark by Kingstonian Melody Monte. Melody sends all proceeds to Otichy Dim/Father’s House in Ukraine, which rescues street children/orphans and provides shelter & love in home settings. Here’s a photo of our specific bookmarks in progress!