Let's talk about Sex!

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Show Notes:

Poems we read and texts we mention include:

Dorianne Laux, "The Lovers" (Visit Laux's website here).

Jenny Johnson, "Daddy Scene" (published in Cherry Tree Issue 11). Subscribe here. Read Jenny's essay "Butch Blowjob" in Bomb Magazine.

sam sax, "Ode to the Belt" can be read in The Nation Sept 2023--or you can watch sam perform the poem here.

If you're looking for a theory reading about sexuality, might we recommend Sigmund Freud's "Three Contributions To The Theory Of Sex"

Jericho Brown's "Host" appears in The New Testament

Timothy Liu's "The Size of It" appeared in The Paris Review Fall 1994

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's "Sex"

Sophie Cabot Black, "Interrogation"

You can read Minnie Bruce Pratt's "Peach" here (just scroll down/search for "peach").

Aaron reads from this article ("50 interesting sex facts...") in the fact check.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

All the queens want is boundless love in this episode about the love life of Frank O'Hara.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Show Notes:

Read Frank O'Hara's "Homosexuality"

For more about Chester Kallman, read here. Kallman was a poet, librettist, and writer who was also Auden's partner (and, later, his estate's executor). He published three collections of poems: Storm at Castelfranco (1956), Absent and Present (1963), and The Sense of Occasion (1971).

Grace Hartigan's relationship with Frank O'Hara is detailed a bit more in this Sebastian Smee essay in Washington Post: "Portrait of a Poet."

Read O'Hara's "In Memory of My Feelings"

Much of Frank O'Hara's papers are at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

Read a review of Ada Calhoun's memoir "Also a Poet," about her father, art critic Peter Schjeldahl, who was working on a memorial project about O'Hara when he died. Calhoun believes that her father’s book was torpedoed by O’Hara’s sister and literary executor, Maureen Granville-Smith Calhoun.

For more about The Glory Hole Café in Buenos Aires (which we mention in the show), go here.