Date and Time: Saturday, 19 July, 7.30 – 9.00 pm (Doors Open at 7PM) - SGT
Venue: Proud Spaces SG (243 Alexandra Rd, #05-03, Singapore 159932)
Free and Open to All
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Join us at Proud Spaces for the Singapore celebration of the brand new landmark anthology Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall (Harvard University Press), edited by Stephanie Burt, and find out what is so special about LGBTQIA+ poetry after Stonewall.
Featuring readings by Stephanie Dogfoot and Jee Leong Koh, whose poems are in the anthology. Also featuring readings by Jack Xi, nor, Lune Loh and Anurak Saelaow.
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY:
A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the evolutions of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Since that galvanizing moment, poetry has served as both a vehicle for queer liberation and a witness to its sometimes fragile, sometimes ebullient flourishing, across the world.
The poems in this anthology represent the great variety of queer and trans life itself. They include near-sonnets, iambic couplets, and rhymed quatrains; skinny dimeters and shaped poems; chatty free verse and intentionally inaccurate translations; the demotic and the rococo. Arranged in chronological order, the selections trace queer culture’s recent evolutions. Frank O’Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James Merrill, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Adrienne Rich, Chen Chen, essa ranapiri, and The Cyborg Jillian Weise—poets widely known and poets who deserve to be—share their alienation, their euphoria, and their encounters with a protean community as it discovers new solidarities and new selves.
Each piece is paired with a concise, eye-opening essay in Burt’s trademark style, with verve and an inimitable literary ear. A treasury of aesthetic experience and insight, Super Gay Poems points protestors, political organizers, poetry lovers, and LGBTQIA+ readers toward many beautiful tomorrows.