Lodestar Quarterly

Jewelle Gomez

Jewelle Gomez is one of few writers who so beautifully encapsulate what a storyteller is and has the power to be in our modern world. In addition to her fiction, essays, and poems, she's served on literary panels such as those for the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, was a member of the original staff of "Say Brother," one of the first weekly, black television shows in the United States (WGBH-TV Boston), and was on the founding board of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). She is currently on the national advisory boards of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; Poets & Writers, Inc.; and the Human Sexuality Archives of Cornell University. We are proud to debut four new poems.

Poems by Jewelle Gomez:
for the Streetcar, Femme to Femme, Femme to Butch, Our Own Viet Nam: 7 random snapshots

FICTION

Jess Wells Excerpt from The Mandrake Broom

Fifteenth-century Salermo through the eyes of Luccia Alimenti in her troubled times of fear and flight.

Robert Weaver
From a Summer Morning in 1864

We go to great lengths to find love. Especially in the backwoods of Georgia in 1864.

Eric Brandt
Devour Me, Once More

The riddle and answer of what to do with a memory battered and destroyed.

Andrew Horwitz
Perimeter

Skimming a scrumptious groove on the edge of your usual fiction.

Shelley Ettinger
Not Alone

A postcard from the frontlines of our quest for queer liberation.

DRAMA

Brian Thorstenson Half-Light Dances

Finding rhythm in our lives depends on knowing how to begin.

SUBMIT

Unfortunately, Lodestar Quarterly is no longer accepting submissions. Thank you for your interest and good luck in placing your manuscripts elsewhere.

POETRY

T. Cole Rachel this is as close as we get, the sweetness, found

Novelist Edmund White calls his poetry "a fierce hymn of a nearly cannibalistic passion."

Mary Meriam
Transplanted

Petals of impression that drip across the page by a remarkable stroke of ink.

Dallas Angguish
Embrace and I Never Called You That

Masterfully coercing you to tempt and conquer.

Priscilla Rhoades
Things I Haven't Said

Her words are comets falling through a clear December sky.

Julianne Bonnet
Marriage Mirage and The Grateful Hangover

From time to time poems are indeed birthed with fits of labor and love.

Krandall Kraus
Christmas

A moment as a Magi in an excerpt from The Christmas Poems.