“Dear David”

Pride month started as a riot against police brutality at a small dive bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn.

The final event in Contemporary LGBT Literature, following Jordy Rosenberg's visit on April 22 (details here), is GW English's own K. Tyler Christensen! Join students in the class on April 28 at 7 PM for an evening with Tyler. This is the final in a series of four "live" public events featuring authors students are reading this semester. Please register for this free event using EventBrite here and you will receive Zoom links both the day before and the day of the event.

That twenty-three year old beauty who had his whole life before him; that boy from Idaho—

Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance

We learn to dance

under the soft glow

of neon.

and requests that I make her a raspberry jelly

sandwich on white bread and we sip…

That boy from Idaho

bears the ceiling at his neck

in a vision i came

everything will be fine

i said

At the 2011 Tin House Writers Workshop, Dorothy Allison delivered a talk called, “On Dialogue.” In her spirited voice, Allison asked:

“Shouldn’t story be something fucking happening?”

I take a bath,

in the moments when he has a signal

and I don’t.

I used to wear the Armor of God: a white t-shirt-like top and a white boxer-brief-like bottom. I slipped out of them at a Super 8 in Salt Lake City, as 2004 slipped into 2005, never to wear the armor again.

There exists a humanity in her use of language that is startling, not just in God, but in everything that she writes.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate decidedly gridlocked on legislation requiring a gun-buyer to successfully pass a background check in order to purchase a gun — an innocuous requirement, really.