The Deerfield Public Library Podcast
Episodes
70: Adam Morgan, author of A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Morgan discusses his new biography, A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature ...
69: Annah Feinberg, author of the graphic novel Goodbye, Dolly!
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are very happy to welcome writer and artist Annah Feinberg to talk about her hilarious and movi...
68: Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., author of The El
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., in conversation on his new novel The El (Vintage Books, 2025). A love letter to our city of Chicago, The El follows a group...
67: James Shea, author of Last Day of My Face
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our conversation with poet, writer, and translator James Shea, whose extraordinary new collection of poems Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Pre...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5 Outro Episode (with Mathew Kerbis, Lisa Hiton, and Daniel Baer)
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Queer Poem-a-Day "outro" episode, featuring three "extras" for Year 5! At 02:00: Mathew Kerbis, a board member of The Friends of the Deerfield Pu...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Ocean Vuong
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 20: Ocean Vuong reads his poem "The Last Dinosaur." This poem first appeared in a slightly different form in The Boston Review (2021) and in his c...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Mark Doty
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 19: Mark Doty reads his poem, "A Display of Mackerel," which first appeared in his collection Atlantis (Harper Perennial, 1995). Mark Doty is the ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Rose Zinnia
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 18: Rose Zinnia reads her poem, "I'm Like If Mary Oliver Had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." This poem was originally published in Poet...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Nikky Finney
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 17: Nikky Finney reads her poem "Charm," originally published in her collection The World is Round (InnerLight Publishing, 2003). Nikky Finney i...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Oliver Baez Bendorf
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 16: Oliver Baez Bendorf reads his poem "What the Dead Can Do, which was originally published in West Branch (2021), reprinted in Best American Poe...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jayson P. Smith
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 15: Jayson P. Smith reads their poem, "I Arrive in a Place with a High Level of Psychic Distress." Queer Poem-a-Day is honored to be the first pub...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jessica Jacobs
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 14: Jessica Jacobs reads her poem, "Saturday Services at the Provincetown Shore" from her book unalone (Four Way Books, 2024). Recorded with per...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Francisco Márquez
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 13: Francisco Márquez reads his poem, "The Bulge," first published in The Adroit Journal (April 2025). Francisco Márquez is a poet from Maraca...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jaz Sufi
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 12: Jaz Sufi reads her poem, "Ode to My Lover's Sequined Dress." Queer Poem-a-Day is honored to be the first publication of this poem. Jaz Sufi ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 11: Gabrielle Calvocoressi reads their poem, "Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you" originally published in Poetry (October 2021). Gabri...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jan-Henry Gray
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 10: Jan-Henry Gray reads his poem "On Therapy," first published in the anthology Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive (Nightboat Books, 2...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Timothy Liu
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 9: Timothy Liu reads his poem "The Price of Kissing is Your Life," originally published in the Georgia Review (Spring 2025). Timothy Liu's most re...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Lloyd Schwartz
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 8: Lloyd Schwartz reads his poem "Who's On First?" This poem was originally published in Ploughshares (1981) and reprinted in Who's On First: New ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Keetje Kuipers
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 7: Keetje Kuipers reads her poem "Cremello Horse," which first appeared in the magazine 32 Poems and was then published in Lonely Women Make Good ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Gaia Rajan
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 6: Gaia Rajan reads his poem "Essay on Class," which originally appeared in Frontier Poetry (2023). Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Mo...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Rick Barot
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 5: Rick Barot reads his poem "Pleasure," which appears in his recent book, Moving the Bones. Rick Barot's most recent book of poems is Moving the ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: S. Brook Corfman
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 4: S. Brook Corfman reads her poem "Before & After." The poem first appeared in Pigeon Pages (2020), in a slightly different form. S. Brook Corf...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 3: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo reads his poem "Eclogue: A Field Guide and Cure." The poem was published in the recent anthology Like A Hammer: Poet...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Faylita Hicks
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 2: Faylita Hicks reads their poem "A Gxrl's Trip Home." This poem was originally published in A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024). Faylita Hi...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jericho Brown
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 1: Jericho Brown reads his poem "Duplex." This poem was originally published in The Progressive Magazine (2019). Jericho Brown is the author of T...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5 Trailer
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're back for year five of Queer Poem-a-Day! Queer Poem-a-Day is a unique podcast series for Pride Month, presenting a public archive of original poe...
66: Dr. Jo Freer on Thomas Pynchon & Gravity's Rainbow
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Dr. Jo Freer, a leading scholar on the work of American novelist Thomas Pynchon. I'm currently leading our Library's Classics Boo...
65: Richard Powers, author of Playground
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Powers talks about his new novel Playground (W. W. Norton & Co., 2024). Playground gives us a masterful braided narrative of lives devoted to ...
64: Lois Baer Barr, author of The Tailor's Daughter
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lois Baer Barr—a poet and fiction writer living just next door to us in Riverwoods, IL—on her new novel The Tailor's Daughter (Water's Edge Press,...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Mary Jo Bang
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 20: Mary Jo Bang reads her poem "Mary Jo in the Time of Sappho." We are honored to be the original publication of this poem. Mary Jo Bang is the a...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Armen Davoudian
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 19: Armen Davoudian reads his poem "Saffron," from his new collection The Palace of Forty Pillars, also published in The Atlantic (2024). Armen ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Esther Lin
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 18: Esther Lin reads her poem "Praise the Scaffold in Rouen Cathedral." We are honored to be the first publication of this poem. Esther Lin was ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Sebastian Merrill
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 17: Sebastian Merrill reads his poem "To My Ghost :: Float" from his book GHOST :: SEEDS (Texas Review Press, 2022). Sebastian Merrill's debut...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Matthew Gellman
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 16: Matthew Gellman reads his poem "Beforelight," originally published in Passages North, 2018. Matthew Gellman is the author of a chapbook, Nig...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Cindy Juyoung Ok
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 15: Cindy Juyoung Ok reads her poem "Claim." They originally published the poem in Conjunctions Issue 75 (Fall 2020). Cindy Juyoung Ok is the au...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Yinlin Zhao
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 14: Yinlin Zhao reads its poem "The Mpreg Poem." We are honored to be the poem's first publication. Yinlin Zhao (he/it/go for it, truly) is a writ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Séamus Isaac Fey
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 13: Séamus Isaac Fey reads his poem "Edwin says I deserve to be loved with precision" which appears in their new collection decompose (Not a Cult...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Fatimah Asghar
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 12: Fatimah Asghar reads their poem "The Ocean is Trynna Fuck," originally published in the American Poetry Review, 2023. Fatimah Asghar is an a...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Joshua Garcia
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 11: Joshua Garcia reads "Epistle (Deluge)" which first appeared in New South and appears in his new collection Pentimento. Joshua Garcia is the au...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: p. hodges adams
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 10: p. hodges adams reads their poem "pêche d'enfer," originally published in the New Orleans Review, 2022. p. hodges adams is a michigander po...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Jimin Seo
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 9: Jimin Seo reads his poem "Richard Wakes Up in The Middle of The Night" forthcoming from his book OSSIA (Changes, 2024). Jimin Seo was born in...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Amelia Ada
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 8: Amelia Ada reads an excerpt from her collection Hard and Glad, forthcoming from DOPAMINE/Semiotext(e) May 2026. Amelia Ada is a trans poet an...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Mark Wunderlich
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 7: Mark Wunderlich reads his poem "No Horse." We are honored to be the first publisher of this poem. Mark Wunderlich is the author of four colle...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Angel Nafis
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 6: Angel Nafis reads her poem "Why R&B First Thing in the Morning, Why R&B Above All," originally published on The Rumpus in 2015. Born in Chica...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Gabrielle Bates
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 5: Gabrielle Bates reads her poem "Intro to Theater," which appears in her collection Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023) [and an an earlier version of i...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Richard Siken
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 4: Richard Siken reads his new poem Cover Story, originally published in Pithead Chapel, which will appear in his forthcoming book I Do Know Some ...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Leslie Sainz
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 3: Leslie Sainz reads her poem "At the Center of the Story & Utterly Left Out", originally published in The Common (2023). Leslie Sainz is the a...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Eduardo C. Corral
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 2: Eduardo C. Corral read the title poem of his 2020 collection Guillotine (Graywolf Press). Eduardo C. Corral is the son of Mexican immigrants....
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: jason b. crawford
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Day 1: jason b. crawford reads their poem "Untitled 1975-86." We are honored to be the first publication of this poem. jason b. crawford is a writer b...
Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4 Trailer
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Queer Poem-a-Day is a unique podcast series for Pride Month, presenting a public archive of poems written and read by contemporary LGBTQIA+ poets. For...
63: Bryan Simpson, Taylor Simpson & Marina Shifrin, Filmmakers
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marina Shifrin, writer of Pickled Herring, and Bryan Simpson and Taylor Simpson, creators of Creating Things. This conversation was recorded as part o...
62: Amina Gautier, author of The Best That You Can Do: Stories
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Best That You Can Do (Soft Skull Press, 2024) by our guest Amina Gautier, one of the most prolific and acclaimed short story writers working today...
61: Dr. Jennifer MacLure on The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Dr. Jennifer MacLure, Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University, on the occasion of the publication of her book, The...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Composer Robert Savage & John Ashbery
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For our final day of Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition, we reveal the unknown lineage story of the composer Robert Savage (whose "AIDS Ward Scherzo" is...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Amanda Gunn
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Gunn reads a poem by Judy Grahn and the poem "Like This" from Amanda's new book Things I Didn't Do With This Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). ...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Megan Fernandes
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Fernandes reads a poem by Federico García Lorca and "Paris Poem Without Clichés" from Megan's just-released book, I Do Everything I'm Told (Ti...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Randall Mann
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Randall Mann reads a poem by Karl Tierney and ""Wi-Fi" from Randall Mann's new book Deal: New and Selected Poems (2023, Copper Canyon Press). Queer...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Jameson Fitzpatrick
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jameson Fitzpatrick reads a text by Gertrude Stein and a poem "The Genius of Wives I Have Sat With" from Jameson's chapbook Mr. & (Indolent Books, 201...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Alicia Mountain
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alicia Mountain reads a poem by Pat Parker and "Rewinding the Lesbian Sex Scene on a Flight to Denver" originally published in American Poetry Review....
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Chen Chen
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chen Chen reads a poem by Justin Chin and "The World's Italianest Resturant" from Chen's new book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergenc...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: K. Iver
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
K. Iver reads a peice by David Wojnarowicz and their poem "Central Park" originally published in Bat City Review, Spring 2023. Queer Poem-a-Day is a p...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Tara Skurtu
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Skurtu reads a poem by Elizabeth Bishop and "Morning Love Poem" from from her debut collection The Amoeba Game (Eyewhere Publishing, 2017), and f...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Armen Davoudian
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Armen Davoudian reads a poem by James Merrill and "The Yellow Swan" from Armen's chapbook Swan Song (Bull City Press, 2020), originally published in L...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Rachel Mennies
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Mennies reads a poem by Muriel Rukeyser and "Feburary 26, 2017" from Rachel's book The Naomi Letters. Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our ...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Maggie Millner
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Millner reads a poem by Adrienne Rich and Section 2.9 from Millner's new book Couplets. Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Derrick Austin
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Derrick Austin reads a poem by Robert Hayden and "Black Docent." Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring conte...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Richie Hofmann
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richie Hofmann reads a poem by Walt Whitman and "Reconciliation." Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring conte...
Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: An Introduction
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this third season of the program, we are shaking things up with a new format: Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition. In each podcast episode, we asked ...
60: Robert Pinsky, author of Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022) is the new memoir by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky. Robert is the a...
59: Lisa Barr, author of Woman on Fire
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're sharing the recording of the special in-person interview we held earlier this month with New York Times bestselling author—and Deerfield resid...
58: Merve Emre on Italo Calvino
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I am very pleased to share a conversation with acclaimed critic Merve Emre on the beloved Italian ...
57: Pianist Seymour Bernstein
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have the honor of presenting a fascinating conversation with world-famous pianist Seymour Bernstein. You may know Seymour as the subject of the wid...
56: Deborah Nelson, author of Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil (University of Chicago Press, 2017) by Deborah Nelson, the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberg...
55: Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, author of Madness
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chicago-based poet and writer Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is the author most recently of the poetry collection Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022). Gabriel was o...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Gay Epithalamium by Benjamin Garcia
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Garcia's first collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT, won the National Poetry Series and the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, in addition to being...
Queer Poem-a-Day: GPOY as Rainbowfrong.gif by Aerik Francis
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aerik Francis is a Queer Black & Latinx poet based in Denver, Colorado, USA. Aerik is the author of the recently published chapbook BODYELECTRONIC (Tr...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Polyamory by Madeleine Cravens
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Madeleine Cravens is a 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She received her M.F.A from Columbia University, where she was a recipient of ...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Arm'd and Fearless by Julian Gewirtz
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Gewirtz is the author of YOUR FACE MY FLAG (Copper Canyon Press, forthcoming October 2022 (https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/your-face-my...
Queer Poem-a-Day: The Need for Repetition by Jim Whiteside
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press, 2019) and is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford U...
Queer Poem-a-Day: from Dependence, the Joistrix / How you are made by Emily Martin
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Martin is a writer and teacher from Brooklyn. Her most recent work is in Tagvverk and Blazing Stadium, and the rest of her work is here: myemily...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Jacob Riis Memorial Beach by Stephen Ira
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Ira is a writer and performer. Favorite appearances, in various roles, include Poetry (Chicago), Fence, tagvverk, the Poetry Project News...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Let There Be Pride by Richard Blanco
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Blanco is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a rol...
Queer Poem-a-Day: gxrl gospel iv: beast of a southern wild by Aurielle Marie
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aurielle Marie is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural strategist. They are a Black queer storyteller, a political organizer, and child of th...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Oracle by Ari Banias
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Banias is the author of A SYMMETRY (2021), winner of the 2021 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature, and ANYBODY (20...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Book VI from The Queerness of Eve by Emilia Phillips
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emilia Phillips is the author of four books of poetry, including Embouchure (University of Akron Press, 2021). They teach in the MFA in Writing Progra...
Queer Poem-a-Day: 2000 miles and this is the love letter I send you over text by Noa/h Fields
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Noa/h Fields is a Chicago-based writer and curator. She works at the Poetry Foundation and is a 2022 fellow at Zoeglossia and Disability Lead. Her wri...
Queer Poem-a-Day: All My Friends are Sad & Bright by Cameron Awkward-Rich
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry—Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and Dispatch (Persea Books, ...
Queer Poem-a-Day: On Growing Bored with Synonyms for the Apocalypse, I Rename It Carl... by C. Russell Price
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
C. Russell Price is originally from Glade Spring, Virginia, but now lives in Chicago. They are a Lambda Fellow in Poetry, a Ragdale Fellow, a Windy Ci...
Queer Poem-a-Day: The Antihero by Megan Fernandes
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Fernandes is a poet living in NYC. Copyright © 2015 by Megan Fernandes. This poem received commendation by Don Paterson in the annual Edwin Mor...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Humpty Dumpty by Spencer Reece
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spencer Reece is the author of The Clerk's Tale and The Road to Emmaus, long-listed for the National Book Award. In 2017 he edited, Counting Time Like...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Salt Lake City by Christian Gullette
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Gullette is a National Poetry Series finalist and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review,...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Photograph by Jenny George
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny George is the author of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). She is also a winner of the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize and ...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Soon by Makshya Tolbert
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Makshya Tolbert is a poet, cook, and potter who just found her way back to Virginia. Her recent poems and essays have been published in Interim, Narra...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Boombox Ode: Enjoy the Silence by K. Iver
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Adroit, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. The...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Ode to Sneakers by Tory Adkisson
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tory Adkisson is the author of The Flesh Between Us (SIU Press, 2021), winner of the Crab Orchard Series Open Book Competition. His poems have appeare...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Argument of Situations by Shangyang Fang
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China, and writes both in English and Chinese. A graduate from Michener Center for Writers, he is a Wallace Stegner...
Queer Poem-a-Day: The Morning After by Ellen Bass
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Bass's most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Lin...
Queer Poem-a-Day: Love in the Time of PrEP by Jaques Rancourt
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of two poetry collections, Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books, 2021) and Novena (Pleiades Press, 2017), as well as a...
Queer Poem-a-Day: At the New York City AIDS Memorial by Stefania Gomez
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stefania Gomez is a queer writer, teacher, and audio artist from Chicago's South Side who received her MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. L...
Queer Poem-a-Day: To Be Saved by CM Burroughs
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CM Burroughs is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago and author of The Vital System (Tupelo, 2012) and Master Suffering...