The Gay Gospel of Aaron Smh by Jamon… | Poetry Foundatn

Contents:

• POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTEMERE   FOLLOWON AUG 19 2023 06:26 PM PST  PLEADG TO KNOW
• THE GAY GOSPEL OF AARON SMH
• POEMS / GAY LOVE POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTJOSHUA KENRYU   FOLLOWON FEB 16 2023 05:38 PM PST  BEE I WANTED YOU TO KNOW
• POEMS / GAY MAN POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEB

POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTEMERE   FOLLOWON AUG 19 2023 06:26 PM PST  PLEADG TO KNOW

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

THE GAY GOSPEL OF AARON SMH

When I was a 17-year-old sufferg the suburbs of Hartford, Connecticut, Aaron Smh’s poems helped me image my future, both as a gay person and as a poet. The few gay male poets I’d read at that pot were eher ad (Frank O’Hara, for stance, whom I loved) or stuffy, which ma them feel even further away. The famo one who was equently remend to me seemed ncerned, the poems I’d read, wh dignifyg the subject of gay life so that might be palatable to a typil poetry-readg dience—somethg I was not terted readg or wrg.

POEMS / GAY LOVE POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTJOSHUA KENRYU   FOLLOWON FEB 16 2023 05:38 PM PST  BEE I WANTED YOU TO KNOW

If the difficulty of beg gay and effemate wasn’t a nstant prence my poetry, perhaps one day wouldn’t be my life.

POEMS / GAY MAN POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEB

Still, I wanted to go to a gay club and fd out for myself. The glimpse of gay adulthood prented here was more troublg, but there was neverthels somethg affirmg about the poem’s existence. It was the first llectn by a livg gay poet that I ever read.