Husband and I always exchange a book on Christmas Eve. This year’s pick for me: Simon Armitage’s translation of Sir Gawain #poetry #books #reading

Diego Reading Jack Chambers 1971

Mark Strand, with the Hanukkah content we all need right now.

Just finished Sara Miles’ Take This Bread (2007). Fascinating conversion memoir from queer/left POV that interprets the Eucharist as a model for community food pantries. Truly “communion” at its radical (but logical) end. #amreading #memoir

Really loved @petcri.bsky.social ‘s memoir on sex, music, and making a queer life. He captures a changing Toronto, and an all too rare exploration of the friendships between queer men and women. I now have a VERY long list of albums to spin.

Poppyseed Cake Glazed for Calypso Mary Pratt 2002

... Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor. Say only, thank you. Thank you. —Ross Gay

This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.

One of my favourite poets discussing another of my favourite poets.

“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...

“We’re all going to hell in a while.” — Patrizia Cavalli . . . This poem appeared in My Poems Won't Change The World by Patrizia Cavalli, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Thanks to @eventmags.bsky.social for including two new poems in their latest issue, including an ode to my moustache 🥸