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Like many of you, I wake up each morning with the feeling that they’re coming for us. But then I think, they have always come for the queers. And we have always, throughout human history, stood watch all night over the fire. We have always taken care of each other, and we will keep on doing it.

I’ve been joking lately that I’m just going to get gayer. I’m going to m...


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“Where Is Here?” an excerpt from I’m Still Here by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, translated by Alison Entrekin & Daniel Hahn

We don’t remember the first images and accomplishments of our lives: milk from the breast, the bars of our crib, the mobile that turns magically o...


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Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Technicolor Horses by Michael Credico, which will be published on April 6, 2027 by Autumn House Press. You can pre-order your copy 


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Soft Landing Summer

At the Hampton Inn half a mile down
Highway 301 from the Winn Dixie
where I pick up a bottle of cheap
Chardonnay, next to the Wendy’s
where the cashier gives me extra chili
with my order, the rental car thermometer
says it’s over ninety in the shade at dusk
and I pull in careful to avoid lawn chairs

dotting p...


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The earliest essay in this book was published in 1992, when I was 40. Back then, my wife and I had only one child, Samantha, three years old. I am finishing this book at 71. My son Tomo is 28, my son Nikko, 30, and Sam, 35, is a Representative in the Minnesota legislature, and mother of Tadashi Sencermura-Witzig, my two-year old grandson.

A year and a half ago, my ...


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