January
Modern Turkish Poetry
edited & translated by Feyyaz Kayacan Fergar
Fluent Forever: how to learn any language fast and never forget it
Gabriel Wyner
The Empress Is a Man: stories from the life of Jose Sarria
Michael Robert Gorman
Running the Amazon
Joe Kane
Evening Street Review
#37, spring 2023
February
Songs from a Mountain
Amanda Nadelberg
The Rest of It: hustlers, cocaine, depression, and then some, 1976-1988
Martin Duberman
Ms. Marvel, vol. 1: No Normal
G. Willow Wilson, writer; Adrian Alphona, artist
The Gay & Lesbian Review
Nov-Dec 2023, v.30 n.6
The Rainbow People
Laurence Yep; illustrated by David Wiesner
Lives of Great Men
Chike Frankie Edozien
Selected Poems
Edna St. Vincent Millay
March
Berkeley Poetry Review, #52: When the world moves on
[contains two of my poems]
Pidgin Eye
Joe Balaz
The Book of J
translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg; interpreted by Harold Bloom
Hint
Deborah Fruchey
Mei Yao-chien and the Development of Early Sung Poetry
Jonathan Chaves
Mr. Know-It-All: the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder
John Waters
Love Wins: the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
Debbie Cenziper & Jim Obergefell
April
Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood
Oliver Sacks
Waiting for the Barbarians: essays from the classics to pop culture
Daniel Mendelsohn
This Arab Is Queer: an anthology of LGBTQ+ Arab writers
edited by Elias Jahshan
Poetry
v.222 n.2, May 2023
The Nib: Drugs
#8
Ms. Marvel, vol. 2: Generation Why
G. Willow Wilson, writer; Jacob Wyatt, Adrian Alphona, artists
West Branch
n.56, sp/su 2005
Stupid?
mini comic by Harry S. Robins
The Best American Poetry 2023
Elaine Equi, guest editor; David Lehman, series editor
Whetu Moana: contemporary Polynesian poems in English
edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri, and Robert Sullivan
Berkeley Poetry Review
#41, 2010
Ten-Word Tiny Tales to Inspire and Unsettle
Joseph Coelho
The Nib, n.1: Death
Day for Night
Valerie Sopher
May
Alta
issue #25
The Last Word
Hanif Kureishi
Wow
Bill Manhire
Restless
Joseph Kai
El Golpe Chileno
Julien Poirier
Art and Fear: observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking
David Bayles & Ted Orland
The Gay & Lesbian Review
v. 31 n.3, May-June 2024
June
Lifespan, v.8: Achievement
July 2023, edited by Matt Potter; contains my poem “Building a House”
City Poet: the life and times of Frank O’Hara
Brad Gooch
Mauri Ola: contemporary Polynesian poems in English (Whetu Moana II)
edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri, and Robert Sullivan
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Talisman: a journal of contemporary poetry and poetics
#16, fall 1996
Edward Foster, editor
The Passion of Gengorah Tagame: master of gay erotic manga, vol. 2
Anne Ishii, Chip Kidd, Graham Holbeins, editors; Vincent W. J. Van Gergen Dei, translator
July
20,000 Steps Around the World: great hikes, walks, route and rambles
Stuart Butler and Mary Capteron Morton
Gaytheist: coming out of my Orthodox childhood
Lonnie Mann, writer; Lonnie Mann & Ryan Gatts, art
The Complete Kake Comics
Tom of Finland; edited by Dian Hanson
Looking for Transwonderland: travels in Nigeria
Noo Saro-wiwa
The Gay & Lesbian Review
v.31 n.4, July/Aug 2024
Already Home: a topography of spirit and place
Barbara Gates
Fire Island: a century in the life of an American paradise
Jack Parlett
August
Queer as All Get Out: 10 people who’ve inspired me
Shelby Criswell
The Old Gays Guide to the Good Life
The Old Gays of TikTok
Normal: transsexual CEOs, crossdressing cops, and hermaphrodites with attitude
Amy Bloom
The Widow’s Handbook: poetic reflections on grief and survival
edited by Jacqueline Lapidus and Lise Mean
Gutted
Justin Chin
King-Cat Comics & Stories
#83, May 2024
John Porcellino
September
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: living and writing in the West
Wallace Stegner
The Book on the Book Shelf
Henry Petroski
Moms
Yeong-shin Ma, translated by Janet Hong
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Victor Mair, editor
Undetectable
a play by Tom Wright
October
The Gay & Lesbian Review
v.31 n.5, Sept-Oct 2024
Our Deep Gossip: conversations with gay writers on poetry and desire
Christopher Hennessy
Pylon
box set of 4 CDs and an LP-sized book with an essay by Stephen Eisner
Transient and Strange: notes on the science of life
Nell Greenfieldboyce
The Land Between Two Rivers: writing in an age of refugees
Tom Sleigh
The New York Review of Books
May 2024, v.71 n.8
A Fast Life: the collected poems of Tim Dlugos
edited by David Trinidad
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts
Sylvia Plath
Grief
Andrew Holleran
Poetry
Sept 2024, v.224 n.5
The Wandering State: poems from alta, vol. 1: San Francisco
edited by Kim Shuck
Sor Juana’s Love Poems
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; translations by Jaime Manrique and Joan Larkin
Cheshire Crossing
Andy Weir and Sarah Andersen
My Body: new & selected poems
Joan Larkin
December
Impossible People: a completely average recovery story
Julia Wertz
The Gay & Lesbian Review
v.31 n.6, Nov-Dec 2024
Mexican Poetry: 20/20 voices, a bilingual anthology
Brandel France de Bravo, editor
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
Walt Whitman; edited by James E. Miller, Jr.
Surrealist Poetry: an anthology
edited & translated by Willard Bohn
The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry: expanded edition
Robert K. Martin
Raven Understands: a happy memoir
Marvin K. Hiemstra
Have You Seen This Man?: the Castro poems of Karl Tierney
edited by Jim Cory
Writing on Empty: a guide to finding your voice
Natalie Goldberg
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
*****
This list encompasses all books I finished reading in 2024, no matter when I happened to start them. It includes a few magazines, ones I’ve read from cover to cover, but not necessarily all of those. The list does not include anything I’ve read on the web. I have read a lot on the web, but it’s too hard to keep track of.
