Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award, 2005), The Torturer’s Wife (Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist, 2008), and Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh, forthcoming from Akashic Books in summer 2013. He is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Lambda Literary Award, 2008). His most recent work appears in the New York Times, The Kenyon Review, and in the anthologies Kingston Noir, Love, Christopher Street, and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, all published in 2012. Glave has been Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, and is a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Fiction
Fall 2008
The Torturer’s Wife
But in the earlier days, these deadwomen are saying (sitting in a circle, in a muddy field far from any homes or people, long after dark)—in the earlier days, they […]
Poetry
Spring 2003
Interview with the Not-Poem
Interviewer: ”But how can you call yourself a ‘not-poem’? You look, from all appearances, like a poem. You crouch, shuffle, swing and sway and arrange your lines, syllables, metaphors and similes […]
Fiction
Winter 1999
The Pit
The killing of children in our town has become quite common now, ordinary as the bread we yet bake each day. We’ve lived here since, it seems, time immemorial, but […]
Fiction
Summer 1996
The Final Inning
And whether or not Duane had really made a beautiful or no fly corpse or not with all of his fingernails and fierce teeth intact beneath the lid of that […]
A Kenyon Review Collage: Later Lives
Spring 1996
Their Story
And then in those afternoons that yet were to come after so many other events of that time and our days too had passed over into our dreams, even after […]
Fall 2012
The Bloodpeople in the Language
And even now being in Jamaica and writing this and knowing that I am writing these words thinking about death and the end of all things and the loss of everything—for loss has indeed recently come very near; has knocked, made itself felt, known, present.