Tenderness
by Derrick Austin
BOA Editions • September 2021 • 9781950774395
“Each poem is exquisitely crafted, made up of delicious imagery, wry humor, and contemplative observations, but their centers hold a queer Black man’s rebellion and reclamation.”—Washington Independent Review of Books
Alexandrian Summer (New Vessel Press) is a pick for the 2021-22 Annual Jewish Book Club Guide.
Boing Boing featured a look inside Encyclopaedia of Hell II (Feral House).
Rabbi Wayne Dosick, author of Radical Loving (Monkfish Book Publishing), spoke with Suzanne LaGrande on the Shaman’s Notebook podcast on September 21.
Adam O. Davis’s poem “The Bell System” from The Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande Books) was the featured poem on Poetry Daily on September 19.