Sophia Le Fraga: Post-Post-Confessional
June 20, 2012 § Leave a Comment
This week, we’re featuring “one-way glass: a poem in the post-post-confessional mode” by Sophia Le Fraga in Lambda Literary Review‘s Poetry Spotlight. It has a phrase tree in it, which I think is pretty cool, not to mention some excellent pop culture references and plenty of chutzpah!
In celebration of her birthday (this past Monday), Pride Week, and the summer of 2012, Sophia will be writing poems for anyone who emails her at slefraga@gmail.com or tweets @badideasophia. She’ll then compile these poems in an upcoming chapbook. Get on it, kids!
Things I’ve Learned from my Gay May-December Romance
June 14, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I’m 22; my boyfriend’s 48. Here’s a few things I’ve figured out along the way:
Have a sense of humor. If you can’t handle the “who’s your daddy?” jokes your friends are (inevitably) going to make, you probably have no business being in a relationship with someone twice your age in the first place. So rather than bracing yourself against the barrage of cradle-robbing and gold-digging jokes that are bound to come your way, just embrace your new role as a child-bride and make sure people are laughing with you, not at you.
Kink is cool! While my current relationship wasn’t my initiation into role play, it was the first time I realized adventurous sex and loving kindness aren’t mutually exclusive. So go ahead, let him be the pervy coach! Be the jailbait slut cruising in the bookstore! Have sex in (and/or with) a roomful of men! You don’t have to feel dirty afterwards—instead you can cuddle.
Coming up–the Lammys!
May 27, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I’m really looking forward to the 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards on Monday, June 4th, where this year’s winners will be announced (including those for the gay and lesbian poetry categories). Come say hello if you see me!
I can’t decide which presenter I’m most excited about seeing: Olympia Dukakis, Charles Busch, or Ally Sheedy. (Okay, Ally Sheedy.)
The 2012 Triangle Awards
April 22, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I covered the 2012 Triangle Awards for Lambda Literary Review.
In the spring of 2010, my first assignment as an intern for the site was a recap of that year’s ceremony, so it was a thrill to come full-circle (only with fewer nerves and better writing). Frances Goldin is truly an inspiring individual, and I have such a fan-crush on Alison Bechdel–I can’t wait until Are You My Mother? comes out. It really was a wonderful evening; thanks to the Publishing Triangle for their perennial hard work!
(Band of Thebes also wrote about the event, and captured a terrific photo of Goldin with her legendary “I Adore my Lesbian Daughters” sign.)
Reading List – 4/15/12
April 15, 2012 § Leave a Comment
- Michael Klein’s essay on his friendship with Adrienne Rich, over at Ploughshares.
- “The Amethyst,” an amazing new poem by Dorothea Lasky at jdbrecords.
- Pitchfork‘s Lindsay Zoladz on Fiona Apple and oversharing #confessionalrealness
- “Bloodletting” by Alex Dimitrov, from The Yale Review.
- “remember” by Sophia Le Fraga, at A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.
- Two poems by Shane Michael Manieri in the Poetry Spotlight at Lambda Literary Review.
- Out.com’s oral history of queer punk.
- Michael Stipe interviewing Mike Hadreas of Perfume Genius for East Village Boys (Pts. 1 & 2).
- My latest Outwords column for Next Magazine, on the Divining Divas anthology: “Bowing Down and Queening Out.”
- So you can’t read them yourself, but you can listen to Lonely Christopher read some poems from his newest book, Crush Dream at A Voice Box. They’re awesome.
