Take the Pride With You

Skirted by Julie Marie Wade

“These precise and honest lines chart how their queer speaker measures and crosses water in all its incarnations. Myth and memory intertwine to reveal both chasm and connection. In this dissonance, the discomfort of being a continent slowly ripping apart and reforming, Wade exposes new lyric heights pushed up from the grit and magma of realizing ‘impeccable geotropic design.’ This collection teaches how to thrive while wading the heartwaters; how to bear living.”—Rajiv Mohabir

 

Aftermath by Thomas March

2018 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Joan Larkin

Poems gifted with moral tension and technical brilliance reveal us to ourselves. “The natural rhythms of iambic pentameter pace the heartbeat of this journey toward queer identity, troubled masculinity, and those unsettling truths that illuminate and disorient consciousness, like ‘dark stars against the warm, awaiting light.’ A superb debut.”—Rigoberto Gonzales

 

Seed by David Eye

2017 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Eduardo C. Corral

“The poems in Seed are luminous and intimate. With emotional clarity that surprises and enriches, David Eye has crafted a debut that illuminates how queerness shapes and shelters the self. His lines are elegant, exact, and rich with both joy and sorrow.” —Eduardo C. Corral

 

By My Precise Haircut by Cheryl Clarke

2015 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Kimiko Hahn

Confronting and interweaving issues of race, sex, gender, aging, history, and the individual’s responsibility to the whole, Clarke floods the reader with a sense of urgency, giving the gift of conviction.

In By My Precise Haircut Cheryl Clarke collects histories that are all, in effect, personal. Whether the tone is wily or grieving, wise or wise-ass, the reader is drawn closer by the page and into a world that may be Black, Lesbian, middle-aged, sister of a deceased Sgt. J. L. Winters, daughter of the Block Elder—but is certainly a threshold for all. —Kimiko Hahn, Judge Author of Toxic Flora and Brain Fever

 

Motion Studies by Brad Richard

Investigating past and present in poems dealing with memory and loss, Motion Studies takes us from daguerreotypes and the Thomas Eakins painting Swimming to post-Katrina New Orleans. Read review from Gently Read Literature.