awards

  • Submit!

    Now accepting submissions Deadline:  March 1, 2012  The Kundiman Poetry Prize is dedicated to publishing exceptional work by Asian American poets. Winner receives $1,000, book publication with Alice James Books and a New York City feature reading. Alice James Books is a cooperative poetry press with a mission is to seek out and publish the best contemporary

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  • Both [Terrence] McNally and Albee spoke of what it means to be a gay author. In accepting his award, Albee said, “I’m not a gay writer. I’m a writer who happens to be gay … I’ve written a number of plays with gay characters in them, but I have never written a play that could

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  • Regarding Recognition

    This year’s Lambda Literary Award finalists in gay poetry are darkacre, by Greg Hewett (Coffee House Press)Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Pleasure, by Brian Teare (Ahsahta Press)The Salt Ecstasies: Poems, by James L. White (Graywolf Press)then, we were still living, by Michael Klein (GenPop Books) There were 33 submissions for

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  • The 2010 Lammys

    I’m late posting my eyewitness account of this year’s Lambda Literary Awards. Chalk it up to the holiday weekend, which I spent with my Nofriendo Wii or watching the worst movie on Netflix ever, or my day in NYC (forthcoming), or the fact that Beau spontaneously decided Monday night was the night we should rotate

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  • To be in good company

    is humbling. Lambda Literary Award Nominees Gay Poetry * Breakfast with Thom Gunn, by Randall Mann (University of Chicago Press) * The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence Press) * The First Risk, by Charles Jensen (Lethe Press) * Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press) * What

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  • William J. Harris, “City Pastoral” (Lawrence) Danielle Cadena Deulen, “In a Past Life, You Were Nicola Tesla” and “When Pandora Opened Her Box She Found” (Madison) Susan Elbe, “New Year’s Eve, 1965” (Madison) Ray Hsu, “It Is Four Degrees” (Madison) Lauren Shapiro, “The Confrontation” (Madison)

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