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March 31, 2025 60 mins

The queens super-gay it up with Stephanie Burt, the editor of the new poetry anthology, SUPER GAY POEMS.

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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.

NOTES:

Check out SUPER GAY POEMS: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall, edited by Stephanie Burt, out on April 1, 2025. 

Read Hera Lindsay Bird's "Bisexuality"

Check out Best New Zealand Poets and 20 Contemporary New Zealand Poets.

Read JD McClatchy's "My Mammogram

The article we reference by the founders of AALR is "The World Doesn't Stop for Derek Walcott, or: An Exchange between Coeditors." Gerald Maa and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis.

Here's a link, if you haven't listened to our episode "We Can Shift the Canon"

Vendler's final book is called Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays, out from Penguin on September 2, 2025.

Read "Breakfast with Miss Bishop"--Helen Vendler on Elizabeth Bishop.

Read here for more about Essex Hemphill.

Stephanie wrote about teaching the Taylor Swift course at Harvard for Vanity Fair.

Read Stephanie's "Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift"

The Tay Learning Podcast that Stephanie mentions can be found here.

Read Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"

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