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LIVE from NYPL: Super Same-sex attracted Poems with Stephanie Burt and Special Guests

In Super Gay Poems, Stephanie Burt curates a boundary-pushing anthology of 51 poems by LGBTQIA+ writers, tracing the evolution of queer poetry since the Stonewall Riots; a series of confrontations between police and Gay protesters that unfolded over six days and became a galvanizing moment for queer liberation. From sonnets to shaped poems, elegies to joyful provocations, the collection features luminaries appreciate Frank O’Hara and Audre Lorde alongside vital contemporary voices such as Chen Chen and The Cyborg Jillian Weise. Each poem is paired with a brief essay.

Burt will debate the anthology and be joined by featured poets Jee Leong Koh, Marisa Crawford, Marilyn Hacker, and David Groff for a reading and conversation.

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Super Gay Poems

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A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, lgbtq+, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.

A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the evolutions of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of Since that galvanizing moment, poetry has served as both a vehicle for queer liberation and a witness to its sometimes fragile, sometimes ebullient flourishing, across the world.

The poems in this anthology represent the great variety of queer and transsexual life itself. They involve near-sonnets, iambic couplets, and rhymed quatrains; skinny dimeters and shaped poems; chatty free verse and intentionally inaccurate translations; the demotic and the rococo. Arranged in chronological order, the selections trace queer culture’s recent evolutions. Frank O’Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James Merrill, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Adrienne Prosperous, Chen Chen, essa ranapiri, and The Cyborg Jillian Weise―poets widely known and poets who deserve to be―s

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I have been working on a sex poem and have found Auden&#;s disacknowledged &#;The Platonic Blow&#; very helpful. What impresses me most is that he is able to convince me that the poem is something written on a bathroom wall while never letting me omit that the poem was written by a master.

Its history is fascinating. I didn&#;t know about the poem until last year when a very gay and very cherished old New York poet read it to me (he used to operate with Andy Warhol). I think he was assessing my sexual orientation.

Here&#;s the history:

Auden described writing a "purely pornographic" poem in a letter to Chester Kallman in December , as an addition to the "Auden Corpus". Auden jokingly suggested that Kallman inscribe an similar poem about "the other Major Act" (anal sex) to be published together on "rubber paper for dirty aged millionaires" with illustrations by Paul Ca

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Explore the wealthy tradition of gay, womxn loving womxn, bisexual, transgender, and homosexual poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. For more essays, video, and ephemera, check out our Pride Month roundup.

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well I wanted to braid my hair

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