Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations...

In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and exploded the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet's...

I can’t make heads or tails of it, the goat on the corner of Union and Metropolitan. It is 2016. Ezra is a queer, Jewish person carrying out their last act of protest outside Trump Tower, New York. While they experience their final moments,...