Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. "Ana Lara's KOHNJEHR WOMAN Evokes a world such as only narrative poetry can. In a series of concise, orally grounded and visually vivid poe
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. "Comprised of catalogs of dreams, questions, advice, recipes and observation, OUR NAME BE WITNESS describes the complicated communities that are the fou
Poetry. African American Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. GOSPEL is an ecumenical resistance song in four parts. In this passionate follow-up to 2005's Lambda Literary Award finalist, WHERE THE APP
Cultural Writing. Fiction. Poetry. Essays. African American Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. In IN THE LIFE, 29 black authors explore what it means to be doubly different--both black and gay--in mo
Cultural Writing. African American Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Film and Music Criticism. Writing from a critical center that is melanin-based/feminist/pro-queer/unabashedly-leftist, LA-based w
Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. BROTHER TO BROTHER, begun by Joseph Beam and completed by Essex Hemphill after Beam's death in 1988, is a collection of now-classic literar
Fiction. African American Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Set in the age of urbanization in the Dominican Republic over the course of several lifetimes, ERZULIE'S SKIRT is a tale of how women and
Cultural Writing. Essays. SPIRITED: AFFIRMING THE SOUL AND BLACK GAY/LESBIAN IDENTITY is a collection of essays that centers on the relationships between spirituality, religion and self-acceptance.
Poetry. African American studies. WHERE THE APPLE FALLS resides at the intersections between woman and female--both human and environmental--and the concepts to which she is often linked: death, rebir
