Britney Daniels’ Journal of A Black Queer Nurse, forthcoming from Common Notions in May 2023, promises to deliver, and it does. Daniels is a conversational, likable writer from start to finish, but the stories she tells are far from easy to read. Told in a series of...

Allison Blevins’ Cataloguing Pain, out in April from YesYes Books, is a lyric memoir like no other. Told in two parts—before and after her husband’s transition—Blevins fearlessly explores through hybrid poetry her emotions, experiences, and feelings surrounding her...

To celebrate Chen Chen’s latest collection of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Community Manager Misha Ponnuraju chats with the poet to talk about the changing seasons, the lineages of his poetry, and what plants can teach us about writing....

Edward Gunawan is the second winner of the Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize: In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities’ revolutionary history, Foglifter Press,...

 In celebration of the release of Luther Hughes’ latest collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, Managing Poetry Editor Dior J. Stephens sits down with the poet to talk about craft, the wonders of Seattle, and X-Men, among other topics. A Shiver in the Leaves thrives...