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In A Bracelet of Honeybees, Lynn Strongin conveys braided stories of aging, pain, and sexuality through her signature genius with language. In these poems, we find Strongin, an older lesbian poet,...

Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize It would be hard to measure all I learned from this book-a carefully researched and elegantly crafted guide to the history of botany and women's queer history...

Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize Acid and Tender is rich with music, vivid detail and the tensions suggested in the title. The poems that explore Frida Kahlo's life and art mirror her surreal...

Wendy DeGroat's Beautiful Machinery is a fine collection of intelligent, witty and moving poetry. She is direct without ever being simple. Her ear is excellent and she creates webs of sound. She...

These poems are brilliant and dangerous. The opening poem, "Invisible Woman, Dancing," is the best protest poem of the decade. The speaker attends a party full of casual, good-intentioned racists and...

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE In Jen RouseAuthor: Jen RousePublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: Oct 30, 2018Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize This memoir-in-poems examines a complex family through horticulture, heterocentricism, and-wait for it!-Nancy Drew. The speaker as queerly astute girl-sleuth...

Demoted PlanetAuthor: Katherine FallonPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 04, 2021Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1735823600ISBN-13:...

In Farrell Greenwald Brenner's playful, cutting Diatribe from the Library, books are toxins, grenades, they have bones. Books are typed on cigarette papers and smoked outside of the library. Farrell...

DiscomFurtAuthor: Sarah CaulfieldPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 21, 2021Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733534598ISBN-13: 9781733534598

Earlier HouseholdsAuthor: Bonnie J. MorrisPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 12, 2021Number of Pages: 50 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1735823619ISBN-13:...

I have walked five Caminos across Portugal and Spain, and now a sixth with Laura and Clara, and a seventh with them as they walk Clara's journey through cancer treatment. Laura leads us with her as...

Layered and heartrending and transcendent, this is Ladin's best book yet. The speaker's nearly omnipresent fear-and acceptance-of the possibility of impending death are offset by her eagerness to...

I wish, writes Maureen Bocka in First name Barbie last name Doll, "I could tell you my history / Make you see past all the pink distractions." With apologies to Aqua, the Barbie girl's life in...

These poems are lush, melodious, striking. Abe Louise Young isn't afraid to be brash, to be soft, to be big, to be the one to tell the queer kids to keep living. This is a potent and necessary...

*Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize The poems themselves are archives, of the body, of place, of the body's gestures and movings through the city of these poems. The images are electric with worry...

I Am This GirlAuthor: Gina Marie BernardPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: Oct 26, 2018Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0999593099ISBN-13: 9780999593097

I Carry My Mother is a book-length cycle of poems that explores a daughter's journey through her mother's illness and death. From diagnosis through yahrtzeit (one-year anniversary), the narrator...

I Wish My FatherAuthor: Leslã©A NewmanPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 02, 2021Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733534563ISBN-13:...

The work of the poet is to bear witness and tell truths, to report and document the beautiful and the strange, the twisted and the sweet. Because this is the work, being a poet means coming to terms...

Winner of 2022 Sappho's Prize in Poetry Late Epistle is a rare first book, one that radiates all the pleasures of poetry-sound, form, and figurative language, among others-but also one that evidences...

Lavender Review: A TasteAuthor: Mary MeriamPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: 45669Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Non-ClassifiableISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9798987763643

In her new collection Lovely, Leslea Newman takes us on a long glittering walk through nostalgia, from her childhood memories in New York City, to silver sequined mini-dresses and steamy woman love...

Low-water?ÇÖs EdgeAuthor: Jean A. KingsleyPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 25, 2020Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733534539ISBN-13:...

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE summer jade leavittAuthor: Summer Jade LeavittPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: Oct 30, 2018Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In ambitious and dextrous poems employing a variety of formal guises, Mary Meriam creates for us an impressionistic yet incisive vision of love and loss in her powerful new collection, My Girl's...

I revel in the genius of simplicity Laura Foley writes as she gives us in plain-spoken but deeply lyrical moments, poems that explore a life filled with twists and turns and with many transformations...

Winner of the 2016 Charlotte Mew Prize The centerpiece of Odd Mercy is "The Little Mommy Sonnets," a crown of sonnets that carries us poignantly through the life and death of the poet's mother, as...

* Winner of the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize This collection is quiet in its transformations-both imagined and radically real-as the speaker allows us to understand different ways in which...

I write for those women who do not speak, said Audre Lorde. But in the case of Paper Cranes, Dinah Dietrich writes as a lesbian speaking for herself, with delicacy and honesty, about her journey from...