The queens talk with gay literary icon Edmund White about his new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir. (Miguel Murphy joins in the fun, too!)

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Miguel's SHORE DITCH is available from Barrow Street.

You can purchase Edmund White's new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, at BookWoman here. Bookwoman was founded to increase access to queer and feminist literature in Texas nearly fifty years ago.

Read Colm Tóibín's essay, "On the Casual Brilliance of Edmund White"

Read a tribute to Gary Indiana in The Guardian here.

Need a quick definition refresher of auto fiction? Here you go!

Miguel mentions that composer Arnold Schoenberg's archive destroyed in LA fires, and you can read more about that here.

Here's a dishy roundup of Nabokov's insults of Dostoevsky

For a bit more about Larry Kramer's objections to The Farewell Symphony, read on.

Learn more about Richard Howard and his poetry here.

Edmund White and Michael Carroll talk about their relationship, and their experiences writing gay fiction here.

And here's the Interview Magazine article we mention in the episode, in which gay writers ask Edmund White a question: “Tall Blonde With a Big Dick”: 18 Men Ask Edmund White Some Sexy Questions"

Finally, check out the fabulous Garth Greenwell's website: https://www.garthgreenwell.com

The queens prove that it's not the size of the ship but the motion etc etc in this episode devoted to short poems.

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Pretty Please with Aaron's cherry on top..... Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Poems we mention in the show include:

A.R. Ammons's "Their Sex Life"

Rae Armantrout's "Anti-Short Story" and "Custom"

Mahogany L. Browne's "Marigold." Listen to it read here.

Andrea Cohen's "After" and "Matinee" and "Flight Pattern" and "Ghosting"

Robert Creeley, "The Answer"

Jim Harrison's "Another Country" and "Barking"

Jane Hirshfield's "Like Others" and to "The Woman, The Tiger." You can hear her read that poem here (at the 18:12 mark).

Sandra Lim, "Just Disaster" and "At the Other End of the Wire" and "Endings"

Listen to Sandra Lim read her poems (~40 minutes) with many short poems at the end.

Samuel Menashe's "Adam Means Earth" and "Apotheosis"

Harryette Mullen's "Way Opposite"

Kay Ryan's "Winter Fear"

Listen/watch the music video for Gilette's "Short, Short Man" here.

Get out your UV lights & swabs--the queens play a game that fuses poems, then guess the poetic DNA samples. Then we spark up a fusion of a different strain!

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Pretty Please.....Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

SHOW NOTES:

Watch Jools Lebron get mindful and demure here, diva

Don't soak tampons in vodka.

Poems we discuss in the episode include:

Philip Levine's "Bitterness"

Laura Kasischke's "Champagne"

Kay Ryan's "Shark's Teeth"

Kenneth Koch's "One Train May Hide Another"

Annie Finch's "Wild Yeasts"

Dorothea Lasky's "Toast to my friend or why Friendship is the best kind of Love"

Danusha Laméris's "Bonfire Opera"

Marie Ponsot's "Among Women"

Tina Chang's "God Country"

Campbell McGrath's "Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas"

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"

W.B. Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"

Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Windhover"

Anne Sexton's "Jesus Awake" & "Wanting to Die"

Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" & "I, Too"

Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps"

And Beyonce's "You Won't Break My Soul [Queens Remix]," in which she sampled Madonna's song "Vogue," returning it to the culture where it rightly belongs.