Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Queer-Ass Poems

January 01, 2024 Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Episode 124
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
Queer-Ass Poems
Show Notes

The queens help you start your new year off right: with some fierce, unapologetic, fabulous queer writers!

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     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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J Jennifer Espinoza's first full-length collection of poems, I Don't Want to Be Misunderstood, is available for pre-order at Alice James Books and will be released in 2024. You can read her poem "Birthday Suits" here.

Read James L. White's "Making Love to Myself." The poem is included in White's book The Salt Ecstasies, published postmortem by Graywolf in 1982.

You can follow Deon Robinson on Instagram: @djrthepoet and read more about him here.

Check out Celeste Gainey (we read her incredible poem "In Our Nation's Capital" on the show) at her website: https://celestegainey.com

Elise D'Haene is Celeste's screenwriter, novelist, and professor partner, and you can read more about her here.

Read Justin Chin's obit. And read his epic poem "Lick My Butt." Watch Chin read his poem "The Glitters" here (~2.5 min).

Read Dennis Cooper's "After School, Street Football, Eighth Grade." You can watch Dennis Cooper interviewed on More Than a Mouthful: Queer Culture TV here.