"Who was more alone than Medusa? Raped in Athena's temple, transformed into a monster, and banished into a cave, Medusa may be the ultimate example of victim blaming. In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame-for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim. She offers a narrative in which women are the makers of the world-in which women find their...

A brilliantly crafted voyage of queer, black possibility. Evocative and experimental, JesusDevil is a nonlinear tale of black life and spiritual expression. Writing in a style she calls "afiction," Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative, following the adventures of Fhill, a black, queer spirit who has taken human form. Neither male nor female, Fhill moves fluidly and disruptively across concepts of identity, passing through...

During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life's work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but she rarely left the town of her birth. From the early 1860s onward, she...

Aventurarse en la poesía de Stella Calloni implica correr riesgos, emerger quemados por todos los fuegos, despellejados, y también bañados por todas las aguas, empezando por las de la ternura y el amor, que se desbordan pródigas, apasionadas, también amargas, a contrapelo de tiempo y espacio. Esta periodista argentina, que ejerce su oficio en los medios con irrebatible honestidad y valentía es, ante todo, según su propia definición, poeta....

Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the midst of political revolution. In these poems, Gabbert imagines a back story and an emotional life for Judy beyond and outside the play. Written in a voice that is at once intellectual and unselfconscious, these poems create a character study of a many-layered...