Persistent Voices: An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS

Timed to release on World AIDS Day, forty of the most admired poets who died of AIDS are remembered in a new and groundbreaking collection

Persistent Voices: An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS
Edited by Philip Clark and David Groff

From Reinaldo Arenas, Tory Dent, and James Merrill to Paul Monette, Essex Hemphill, and Joe Brainard, Persistent Voices memorializes these poets and many others by presenting their work—often dealing with AIDS but also about other enduring topics—in the context of an unending epidemic that has profoundly affected our literature.

Philip Clark is a writer and teacher from the Washington, D.C. area. David Groff is a poet, editor, and teacher in New York City.