Online zine Velvet Mafia features poetry by Byran Borland and Stephen S. Mills, excerpted from their manuscript The Hanky Code, which will be released by Lethe in 2011.

Charles Jensen, author of the Lammie Finalist poetry collection The First Risk, was interviewed by Fictionaut

It seems that one of the most important queer presses has become Lethe Press. Which this year alone has produced two amazing gay male poetry titles: Ragan Fox’s “Exile in Gayville” and Charles Jensen’s “First Risk.” They seem to be producing wonderful books in every genre. With the death of so many gay bookstores, I hope that the queer male ( Read more... )

Today sees the release of Maryland-based poet Charles Jensen's book, The First Risk.

In four extended sequences, The First Risk confronts the murder of Matthew Shepard and the myth of Venus and Adonis through the eyes of Italian Renaissance painter Luca Cambiaso; the eccentric women of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother and their search for ( Read more... )

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Poet Charles Jensen, whose Lethe Press debut The First Risk will be published this fall, was interviewed by The Collagist.

Beth Bernobich, whose untitled short story collection will be published the Lethe early next year, has released Ars Memoriae, an alternate history novella, from PS Publishing.


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