A magical girl-gone-bad and a renegade mech pilot must stay on a date forever, even if it means destroying the world. Don't you want to help them?An Independent Press Top 40 Bestseller **•**Ms. Magazine May 2026 Pick • A them Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2026 • An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book For May • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Queer Book of 2026

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month's cover features artwork from Sam Schechter, illustrating a brand-new science fiction story by Violet Allen ("The Null Space Conundrum"). This story is a wild...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington PostA truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now.Have y...

For fans of Lang Leav, this beautiful gift book is a must-have! Beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this illustrated treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The author's original art is presented in lovely four-color illustrations.Lang Leav's evocative poetry in a gorgeous package with ribbon marker and cloth spine is an irresistible gif...

A poetry collection about gay love, belonging, and being fully seen.In the Middle of a Better World is a queer guide to love and identity, a collection both formally inventive and infused with a bright, shimmering imagination. Part elegy, part battle cry, this highly anticipated new collection by Grant Chemidlin is unabashedly joyous in its exploration of desire, human connection, and community—those we’re born into and those we build ourselves.

(W)hole is the story its author never intended to tell. It's a hero's journey through gender and the consequences of striving for self-actualization. This compilation of poems puts transition on display as a life-long journey of love, learning, and relationship-building, compared to the overnight switch-a-roo made famous by Caitlyn Jenner. While many trans narratives share similar story-arcs, (W)hole only represents the experiences of its author. The book is split into th...

written over one rapturous summer, as blue as me captures the way it feels when one feels intense love in many directions. these poems reflect the highs and lows of romantic, friendly, and familial love, while haunted by the lingering melancholy that love for others will never fully relieve life's pain.includes colour photographs taken by the writer.

Living with the Monkey Mind is an attempt to craft a concise collection of poems that varies in topic, tone, and construct, creating a free-range landscape that shifts from the everyday to the abstract, the light to the dark, the personal to the universal, drawing on a variety of forms that include sestina and experimental verse. There is a conscious attempt to avoid linear or even logarithmic arrangements and embrace the disruption of the shiny object – all while trying hard not to sound ...

Ink & Aftermath is a collection of poems exploring memory, silence, longing, and the quiet truths we carry long after the storm has passed.

Lyrical poetry inspired by popular songs, Rogal sweeps the reader through the journey of creation.In More Songs the Radio Won’t Play, Stan Rogal takes formerly “popular” tunes (from various genres) and transforms them. Self-referentiality; mashups of the erudite and profane; allusions to other arts and sciences; the insertion and bending of biographical and historical facts; problematic snippets of philosophy and literary theory, quotes, and bastardization...

X marks the spotWhere I left you,Where I loved you,Where you livedIn my heart.X marks the spotWhere I carved you outAnd all that remainsIs a fading scar.Here we are, after the fact, after the fall out, after the breakdown of us. Here I am, reminiscing, reliving, reviling, recounting when you were mine. We were something, and now we're nothing, so I'm here, trying to make sense of us, and you, and who you wanted me to ...

Two young aspiring writers discuss their writing attempts and frustrations and then find files of poems and the beginnings of failed novel attempts in the school computer. A stream of conscience and poetic meditation on youth, writing, criticism, love, through lose short stories and poems cobbled together with an arch involving a young man named Max.