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i want a queer future now!!!
This poem explores the feeling of being alienated within a gendered body and the desire for a future outside our cisnormative world.
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Following cars with mostly straight boys (1991)
Megan Clayton answers Josiah Morgan’s ‘Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys’ with the gendered recollection of an earlier generation.
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Learning Not to Leave
Liberty Armstrong responds to Claudia’s poem ‘The L Word’ by taking on her own journey of self-reflection and acceptance.
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Twisted Associates
Alexandra Cherian re-imagines a post-apocalyptic tale as a found poem on colonisation’s effect on te taiao.
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the st8 of things
bram casey sticks his fingers down his throat and this is what comes out. he’s scared, and tired, and busy, and living for each moment as it arrives and really, really excited. like, always.
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The Magpies Who Remember Your Face
In this new poem, Francis Aschoff weaves memory into the present by challenging creatures of habit to change their ways.
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On changing, again.
Holly reflects on her own personhood in this poem, which she erased from an essay her father wrote on changing his name.
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volatile compound
Laura Vincent uncovers a fourth and (probably) final layer of response and reflection to a poem from bad apple’s early days.
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in our universe
ella sage respons to bram casey’s ‘in every other universe’ through this love letter essay to friendship and queer camaraderie.
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three spell(ing)s
In three poems, olive bly plays with pink brains, stands in the kitchen on election day, and sings the granny smith blues.
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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