Beauty-Gate, Synchronicity, and History

If you haven’t been following the conversation that’s been happening in the gay male poetry community about beauty, aesthetics, class, race, and privilege you can catch up with most of it HERE. C. Dale Young has done a great job of collecting the multiplicity of voices and views on his blog. (Thanks C. Dale!) In […]

Only the Appearance of a Whole

This weekend has been filled with a small accretion of idea bits and fragments, that have sort of reached a critical mass in my head.  If my mind were a junk drawer, it would be time to clean it out. One thing that struck me this weekend was my tendency to pick up old books, even if […]