by Matthew Young Grant Chemidlin is the author of What We Lost in the Swamp (Central Avenue Poetry, 2023), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His newest collection, In the Middle of a Better World, will be published by Central Avenue Poetry in February 2026. Recent poems can be found in The […]
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by Michael Cuervo Ryan Van Meter is an author whose work grabs the reader and never lets go. His essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now (Sarabande Books), is a stirring journey of identity, one that bends form and genre to navigate the vulnerability of exploring and discovering the self. His work has been featured […]
by Travis Cohen and Michael Cuervo Julie Marie Wade is an author who could serve as a dictionary entry for multivalence. She is a poet, essayist, memoirist, hybridist with so many collections of poetry, prose, and genre bending forms that her publications become difficult to enumerate, though they are all worth seeking out. Her 2023 […]
by Travis Cohen Jonathan Escoffery is an author whose work defies both definition and expectation. His debut book, If I Survive You (MCD Books), which was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, is sometimes described as a novel, at others as a linked story collection. It is […]
by Madison Whatley Peter Balakian is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ozone Journal (2015), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Ziggurat (2010), which wrestles with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11. Gulf Stream Managing Editor, Madison Whatley, met with him in Miami to discuss his latest book, No Sign (2022). Their conversation has been edited for […]
by Rosa Sophia Elgin Jumper is a Seminole poet and artist whose poetry collection, Nightfall, was published by the American Native Press Archives and Sequoyah Research Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His work was recently presented in a documentary from Seminole Media Productions entitled “Elgin Jumper’s Colorful Journey,” which premiered at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki […]
by Travis Cohen Alexandra Chang is the author of Days of Distraction (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020) and was recently selected as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, chosen for the impact her debut and future works promise to have on the literary landscape. Her forthcoming collection of short stories, Tomb Sweeping, is set to be […]
DOMINIQUE CHRISTINA is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She has authored four poetry collections: The Bones, The Breaking, The Balm: A Colored Girl’s Hymnal (2014), They Are All Me (2015), This Is Woman’s Work (2015), and her latest, Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems (2018). She holds five national poetry slam titles in four years, including […]
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