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Where Are They Now?

I was so tickled to be featured in a series at Between The Lines, Michigan’s LGBT Newspaper. The writer Liam Clymer was a student of my Michigan buddy, Dr. Tim Retzloff. The print version ran a number of photos, including of my beloved Mike Hickey z’l. Sharing the piece below as images and as a … Continue reading Where Are They Now?

NWSA Presentation on Onyx

With a fabulous group of colleagues, I am presenting at the NWSA conference today in Minneapolis, MN on the black lesbian newsletter, Onyx. My comments are below. If you are interested in exploring further, you can read the full archives of Onyx here: https://archive.org/details/glbthistoricalsociety?and%5B%5D=creator%3A%22onyx%22&sort=date A formatted copy of the presentation is below. Continue reading NWSA Presentation on Onyx

Poem in APR

APR, American Poetry Review, is a dream publication of mine. I have been excited all year about this poem being published. It landed however amid a new excitement of my life, the little Saint Bernard puppy we call Alice. So I am late in posting this, but still delighted by this publication and filled with … Continue reading Poem in APR

Listen in at OutWrite

Every since OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture published back in March, I’ve been carrying a task in my notebooks to put up a speech or two for folks to listen in on the conference. This project is a case of better late than never. Today I have finally succeeded in putting two … Continue reading Listen in at OutWrite

Queer Nature Review

This weekend I was thrilled by a review of Queer Nature in the Gay and Lesbian Review which calls out my poem “Pervert.” The reviewer writes, “One of the best poems is Julie R. Enszer’s “Pervert,” in which a lesbian imagines how her sexual experience with a particular woman would go, with a wrenching change … Continue reading Queer Nature Review