We kiki with David Trinidad about memory, desire, and his poem "Finding Bobby." Order David's new book, Digging to Wonderland, here -- from Loyalty Bookstores, a black-owned independent bookstore in DC.Doriane Laux and Kim Addonizio's The Poet's Companion says this: "David Trinidad, who writes poems about sexuality from a gay man's perspective, does so in very explicit terms," and then they excerpt his poem "Eighteen to Twenty-One." The poem is also anthologized in other books, including High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings, edited by Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg, The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou, not to mention in David's book Answer Song, which you should totally buy.

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