Bücher von Steven Riel

The poetry collection, Fellow Odd Fellow, by author Steve Riel, is a deeply compassionate look at identity from childhood to present through the lens of gay culture and experience. Careful attention to language and sound makes Riel's unwavering descriptions melodic and lilting. Riel's gift is to "unpack, unfold, smooth out one by one," with his provocative verse, boyhood, guilt, fragility, dementia, and AIDS. His poems process longing kept "behind the fake door, then stumble through the tunnel out of this galactic silence." From "the dim closet of confession," a poignant and touching honesty, humor, and imagination illuminate the beauty of embracing self.

Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal devoted to poetry and visual arts, flash fiction and literary criticism by emerging and established writers and artists. Volume 1, Issue 2 includes work by Steven Cramer, Kevin Mclellan, Susan Rich, Wendy Drexler, Rukhsar Palla, Ace Boggess, Steven Riel, and Barbara Siegel Carlson among others