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A FACE AT MY WINDOW Rupture amidst bliss. This is what I was born for. Mama never told me there'd be days like this. I am not any ...

AS OUR FIRST SUMMER ENDS She tilts her head, eyes slim, and her voice drops into rumble range as she says "I love you." My w...

[Photographer Lincoln Harrison spent up to 15 hours taking these long exposure pictures over Lake Eppalock near Bendigo in Victoria, Austral...

HOCKEY NO BLOODY WAY She hated gym except on days when rain kept them indoors to learn English Country Dancing paired with another gi...

CYBER LOVE When we skype, my girlfriend holds her laptop in her eager hands the better to imagine she can cup my face or lace her fing...

VOW FULFILLED She compares my writing to a bower bird But truth be told another has already summed me up: "This is my letter to ...

(Photo of Lee Lally by Michael Lally) Lee Lally only published one chapbook of poetry, These Days , but it had a strong impact and I still...

During the fight against the Briggs Initiative, I had the chance to hear many legendary lesbian poets and writers, among them Chrystos . On...

In 1994-ish an Italian-Texas dyke cook named Lisa took a tiny inheritance and started a café in South Austin called Forray’s. Remember Forr...

(Jan Clausen photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey, ©2008) Jan Clausen came out with a literary splash, and then “went back in” with a painfu...

Olga Broumas ’s work is tangled in my memory with my first heady months in San Francisco – the community of women, of possibility, of power...

Several years ago, I took a “Finding Voice” training by Sharon Bridgforth . That, in combination with mentoring by Terry Galloway in Actual...

Minnie Bruce Pratt has published six books of highly-acclaimed poetry, was for five years a member of the editorial collective of Feminary...

Ellen Marie Bissert founded 13th Moon in 1973, a feminist journal which developed into a prominent literary publication, featuring such aut...

In honor of Poetry Month, I will be posting great poetry that is hard to find elsewhere. I begin with work by Dodici Azpadu, whose novel Sa...

(Judy Grahn, January 1988, Oakland CA, photo by Robert Giard) Every Saturday evening I post a Judy Grahn poem. Much of her best work is al...

(Judy Grahn, January 1988, Oakland CA, photo by Robert Giard) Every Saturday evening I post a Judy Grahn poem. Much of her best work is al...

(Judy Grahn, January 1988, Oakland CA, photo by Robert Giard) Every Saturday evening I post a Judy Grahn poem. Much of her best work is al...

(Judy Grahn, January 1988, Oakland CA, photo by Robert Giard) Every Saturday evening I post a Judy Grahn poem. Much of her best work is al...

(Judy Grahn, January 1988, Oakland CA, photo by Robert Giard) Every Saturday evening I post a Judy Grahn poem. Much of her best work is alr...