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Good Night, Good Night–! Parting is Such Sweet . . . by Jenny Factor
[wait for it]…[there’s a dramatic pause in here somewhere] Sorrow. But don’tworry! Sarah Manguso will visit you tomorrow! If you are interested in My Annotated List of Alternative Sexualities in The Best American Erotic…
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Must You Change Your Life?— Sapphic Soliloquies by Jenny Factor
On Sunday, Jill Alexander Essbaum brought us to the brink of Biblical bliss in a smart, sinuous sermon. On Monday, a day of the week not generally favored in the Biblical sense*, a college…
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Good Morning! How about a Quickie Before Work? by Jenny Factor
A poem is—by its nature—an unconsummated sex act. The poet follows a kind of arousal, the desire to create a sensory moment in the reader and in him/herself that will exist, hovering in its…
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Photo Not Included by Ross Martin
People thank David Lehman all the time. It’s got to annoy the guy, after all these years. He’d probably prefer you just buy him a drink. Or tell him you think that he’s hot.…
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The How To [by Catherine Bowman]
Instructions. Audre Lorde in her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” writes “This is one reason why the erotic is so feared, and so often relegated to the bedroom alone,…
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Two Kinds of Erotics: by Catherine Bowman
Rod Stewart. Rod Stewart’s borrowing of the Brazilian musician Jorge Ben’s hit “Taj Mahal” for his 1978 hit “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” gives us a glimpse into a kind of erotic metamorphoses or…
