Celebrate Pride!
with this review of the winner of the 2010 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry — http://bit.ly/90WpMr
MY OWN SYNTAX
Anything black, queer, funk, foul, bright, woman, not-woman, not-not brown, yellow, white, fake, false, cruel, straight, permed, natural, skinny, sexy, sleazy, dead. Any body without invasion. Any voice without erasure.
About
Born and raised in New Orleans, Rickey Laurentiis is a poet and studies in New York. MY OWN SYNTAX is his blog of poetics and politics, and is dedicated to James Baldwin and Alvin Ailey. Ask him your question here or visit his literary project, CAYENNE, here.
