Book Reviews


Fidelity: Poems by Grace Paley, CALYX, Winter 2009.

Gospel by Samiya Bashir, Lambda Book Report, September 2009.

Over the Summer Water by Elizabeth McFarland, CALYX, Summer 2009.

Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen in Lambda Book Report, Spring 2009.

Causeway by Elaine Sexton in Lambda Book Report, Spring 2009.

love belongs to those who do the feeling by Judy Grahn in Lambda Book Report, Spring 2009.

Sex Talk to Girls by Maureen Seaton in Lambda Book Report, Spring 2009.

Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster by Joanne Passet in Lambda Book Report, Winter 2009.

Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues by Julene Tripp Weaver in CALYX, Winter 2009, vol. 25, no. 1.

Balancing Acts and Toast Soldiers by Rochelle Ratner in Bridges, Volume 13, Number 2, Autumn 2008.

Loving the Difficult by Jane Rule in Lambda Book Report, Summer 2008.

Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage by Nancy Polikoff in Lambda Book Report, Summer 2008.

Interpretive Work by Elizabeth Bradfield in Lambda Book Report, Summer 2008.

Practice by Dan Bellm in Lambda Book Report, Summer 2008.

Without a Map by Meredith Hall in Moondance, March 2008

Queering Reproduction by Laura Mamo in Lambda Book Report, Winter 2008, volume 15, issue 4.

From a Glass House by Jan Clausen in Lambda Book Report, volume 15, issue 4.

Biting the Apple by Lucy Jane Bledsoe in Lambda Book Report, volume 15, issue 4.

Different Daughters by Marcia Gallo and From the Closet to the Courts by Ruth Simpson in Sinister Wisdom, Issue #73.

This is What Happened in Our Other Life by Achy Obejas in MiPoesias, March 2008.

Green Bodies by Rosemary Winslow in Her Circle eZine, March 2008.

Poetry & Commitment by Adrienne Rich in CALYX, volume 24, no. 2, Winter 2008

It Happens as We Speak by Pat Falk in CALYX, volume 24, no. 2, Winter 2008

A is for Anne by Penelope Scambly Schott in CALYX, forthcoming, Summer 2008

Sister by Nickole Brown in Lambda Book Report, Fall 2007

Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany in Lambda Book Report, Fall 2007

Contemporary Lesbian Poetics, a review of new work by Robin Becker, Cheryl Clarke, Sina Queyras, Nathalie Stephens, Juliet Patterson, Joan Larkin, Eloise Klein Healey, Vittoria repetto, and Stacey Waite, Sinister Wisdom, Issue #72.

Letters from the Lawn by Bobbi Lurie, Moondance, September 2007.

Transforming Reviews in Galatea Resurrects, August 2007. An interrogation of the review structure considering the following books: Sugaring by Ann Cefola, Teahouse of the Almighty by Patricia Smith, Cinephrastics by Kathleen Ossip, The Paragon by Kathrine Varnes, Kali's Blade by Michelle Bautista, and three books by Rochelle Ratner.

Half-Wild and The Love of Impermanent Things by Mary Rose O'Reilley in Calyx, Summer 2007

My Body: New and Selected Poems by Joan Larkin in Lambda Book Report, Summer 2007

What Becomes Her by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz in Lambda Book Report, Summer 2007

The Great Canopy by Paula Goldman in Galatea Resurrects #6, May 2007

Falling into Velazquez by Mary Kaiser in Galatea Resurects #6, May 2007

Interview with Bettina Aptheker, Lambda Book Report, Spring 2007

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel by Bettina Aptheker, Lambda Book Report, Spring 2007

The Islands Project by Eloise Klein Healy, Lambda Book Report, Spring 2007

What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward in Moondance, March 2007

A Half-Red Sea by Evie Shockley in Galatea Resurrects #5, February 2007

Balancing Acts by Rochelle Ratner in Galatea Resurrects #5, February 2007

New Translations of Osip Mandelstam in Galatea Resurrects #5, February 2007

Amazon Grace by Mary Daly, Sinister Wisdom, Open Issue #71, April 2007

A Palace of Pearls by Jane Miller, Style Journal, March 2007

Poet Warriors: A Review of Alexis DeVeaux's biography of Audre Lorde, the Collected Poetry of June Jordan, and three books by new poets, Sinister Wisdom, January 2007.

Natural Defenses and Fire is Favorable to the Dreamer by Susan Terris, Galatea Resurrects #4, December 2006 

Marble Goddesses with Technicolor Skins by Corinne Robins, Galatea Resurrects #4, December 2006

The Fifth Voice in Galatea Resurrects #4, December 2006

Thirst by Mary Oliver, Lambda Book Report, Winter 2007, vol. 14, issue 4

Gittel, the Would-Be Messiah by Naomi Feigelson Chase, CALYX, vol 23, no. 3, Winter 2007

Interview with Robin Becker, Lambda Book Report, Fall 2006, vol. 14, issue 3

Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker, Lambda Book Report, Fall 2006, vol. 14, issue 3

What If Your Mother by Judith Arcana, Moondance, September 2006

Days of Good Looks by Cheryl Clark, Lambda Book Report, Summer 2006, vol. 14, issue 2

Beggar at the Wall by Rochelle Ratner, Galatea Resurrects #3, August 2006

The Countess of Flatbroke by Mary Meriam, Galatea Resurrects #3, August 2006

Learning the Language by Kate Greenstreet in Galatea Resurrects #2 May 2006

Desire Path by Myrna Goodman, Maxine Silverman, Meredith Silverman & Jennifer Wallace

in Galatea Resurrects #2 May 2006

The Underwater Hospital by Jan Steckel in Galatea Resurrects #2 May 2006

Poetic Voices Without Borders, Ed. Robert L. Giron in Galatea Resurrects #2 May 2006

Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems by Wanda Phipps in Galatea Resurrects #2 May 2006

"WRITING OUR LESBIAN LIVES IN POETRY: A Review of Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch and Some Very Soft Days by Margo Solod," Sinister Wisdom 67 , April 2006

The Day Eazy-E Died by James Earl Hardy, Technodyke.com, February 2002

Between Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey, Technodyke.com, August 2001

S/He Beyond Either/Or to Both/And,” Book Review of S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt, Between The Lines, March 1995

“The Impulse to Write: Poetry of Two Cancer Survivors,” Review of Winter Numbers by Marilyn Hacker and Post-Diagnosis by Sandra Steingraber, Between The Lines #28, July 1995

“Resisting Repression: Recovering from Violence and Asserting Family,” Book Review: Eight Bullets and Everyday Acts and Small Subversions, Between The Lines #29, August 1995


Movie Reviews


“Bar Girls Keep No Promises,” Review of the movie, Bar Girls, Between the Lines #26, May 1995


“I Sing The Body Electric, Movie Review: 2 Girls In Love,” Between The Lines #28, July 1995


Television Reviews


"Ellen's Excellent Adventure" A Review of Ellen Morgan Coming Out on Ellen, Detroit's Metro Times, May 1997