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06/05/2026
BOOK NEWS: Rediscovering misplaced q***r history in Irish literature and film
*Q***r Possessions* by Patrick R. Mullen
BOOK NEWS: Examining ecological care in postcolonial poetry from the 1970s to present
*Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment: Place, Precarity and Justice*
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Aaron Stone reviews *The Cambridge History of Q***r American Literature* edited by Benjamin Kahan
Read it on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/986206
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04/14/2026
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Grant Matthew Jenkins reviews *Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems* by Jessica Lewis Luck
Read it on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/986205
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Daniel Swain demonstrates how Frank O’Hara’s poetics explore the erotics of class desire
Read it on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/986203
04/09/2026
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Chris Coffman argues that H.D.’s poem "The Master" inscribes non-binary subjectivities
Read it on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/986202