Lavender Fire, Lavender Rose

From the stunning opening poem, Recent developments in Gay America, [this book] is a cathartic journey for poet and reader, leavened with touches of sly humor. Ken Pobo is unsparing, including his indictment of the church for its cruelty towards and crusade against homosexuals.--Karla Linn Merrifield, author of My Body the Guitar.

Light runs through this powerful, exciting, gorgeous collection of poems [winner of the 2021 Stonewall Chapbook competition]: sunlight, candlelight, the light of fire and morning and moon. . . . Janine Urell, author of the comics of alison bechdel