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“My Soul is in My Pants” [by David McNamara]
My Soul Is in My Pants Call me Rocco, the little brother of Saint Vitus.I've got waxy eyelashes, a flexible pelvisAnd can sort through the card catalogOf all your mystical categoriesWith the power of…
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BLACK AND BLUE POETRY, by Greg Hewett
46 I_M NOW EIGHTY FOUR O’Hara’s brand of outrageous, gimlet-eyed poetry criticism became a cottage industry for one of the unsung heroes of contemporary poetry, Robert Peters. Peters is the author of the iconoclastic…
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JUST EXPERIMENTING WITH O’HARA, by Greg Hewett
Still thinking about the mainstreaming of gay culture, and more specifically, gay poetry, and I am struck by the fact that so many of the touchstone poets for younger poets today happen to be…
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Brooklyn Garden [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Exhibit A, my friend the B. Exhibit B, a baby pickle, brineless, yet, but consider the bad music of the word cucumber and the nuclear cuteness of cuke and you'll se why i went…
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAY LITERATURE, by Greg Hewet
Next month, as part of a series guest-edited by Mark Doty, Graywolf Press will reissue James White’s uber-lyrical, posthumous 1982 The Salt Ecstasies. This has got me thinking about what may be only an…
