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Poetry that is gay

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POETRY THAT IS GAY

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Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d.

But for the award-wng gay poet Doty, textual analysis of the great Amerin bard required a personal analysis, which necsated this kd of spirual ntact. "Labels like gay, queer, or bisexual were nonexistent Whman's era.

IS POETRY GAY?

What Is the Grass thor Mark Doty and Pulzer Prize wner Jericho Brown discs the gay poet's legacy. * poetry is gay *

Or, to -opt one of the more unfortunate terms of our time, I’d like to ask another, overly provotive qutn: Is poetry gay? He is a gay poet (or a poet who happens to be gay), and though I hate to place labels on any wrer, the poems his first book, The Anchorage, do not shy om this personal tth. The many dark piec are hnted by mortaly and vlence, and they trace a young gay man’s journey to a new life, far om his boyhood home Wisns, near that “highway that cuts the Midwt to two unequal/ halv.

POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTSOBSHAGS   FOLLOWON AUG 25 2023 08:30 AM PST  THE GLOSSY STUGGLE OF A ONCE YOUNG GAY MAN

Of urse, a man n be both “manly” and gay my humble opn, but I spect there are still plac Ameri (and many other parts of the world) where this is simply not the se: a gay man is marked as effemate, no matter his genr performance, and that’s the end of the story.

As a gay poet who grew up the ral Midwt and went to school Wisns, I have been eply affected by Wunrlich’s work, toxited wh his utter honty speakg about love, sex and attachment.

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