THAT BOY FROM IDAHO

My Micro-Chap THAT BOY FROM IDAHO was chosen by judges Ava Wolf and Dior J. Stephens for publication as part of Ghost City Press’s 2020 Summer Series. Hard copies forthcoming.

“K. Tyler Christensen is an unabashed archivist of queer heartbreak who iterates and reiterates the phenomonology of a life through anaphora and these single-take, deeply imagistic scenes. Courtney Love is cast as a modern day Marie Antoinette. A ‘small fries, a Diet Coke, / and a spicy chicken sandwich / cut in half’ is the objective correlative to show resilience: what happens the next day, banal and yet totally exculpatory. The repetitions underscore countless cuts from a world that can’t stop hurting. That Boy from Idaho is laughing today over what made us cry in high school. The nostalgia, the cultural hand-rails, and fighting back despite it all. The attention Tyler pays to his subjects is by loving them.”

- Amy Lawless, Broadax