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Poetry Off the Shelf
Stephanie Burt on queer time, glass dildos, and making it up as you go.
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- ArticleBy Karl Knights
A tractor has as much right to be in a queer poem as a Fire Island reverie.
- PoemBy Jacques J. RancourtI dressed as a stag: headpiece
of antlers, fabric flowers
hot-glued to a harness, my ass
hanging out of… - PoemBy Jacques J. RancourtCan I still call you
Emily? Not long after
we last saw each other, I too changed
my name. Dropped … - PoemBy Jesse NathanGoing to the Russian bathhouse on Innes
to lie naked on a shelf in the steam
while the hatted man
swanning… 
- ArticleBy Daniel Felsenthal
Dario Bellezza scandalized Italy with unabashedly queer poetry about cruising and AIDS. Nearly thirty years after his death, a new translation brings his work into English.
- PoemBy Paul TranMixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
A stranger… - PoemBy Omotara JamesWhen Sarah Vaughan pipes from the great American songbook,
I forget time is dragging my body from one… - PoemBy Oak MorseGot to gala glaze lavender my pansy hoist my symphony
little gal Fauntleroy in ultra dire
cootie yuntra… - PoemBy Mickie KennedyA house with a pool missing tiles.
Another house, foundation cracked,
the whole left half off-kilter,
like… - PoemBy Bhion AchimbaWhen Ovid drives the Buick, it is from one sharp end
of Boston to the Cape—as if he must escape the … - ArticleBy Steven Reigns
I knew, with absolute certainty, that what I had experienced there was something I would never experience again.
- ArticleBy Yasmine Shamma
Joe Brainard's letters are playful, elusive, and hungry for art.
