The Poetics of Queer
Summer 2015 · Vol. 38 No. 1
Since the first Pride celebrations in 1970, the queer movement has significantly altered the socio-sexual artscape of North America, including Canada. In “The Poetics of Queer,” Volume 38, Issue 1 of CV2, we explore the factors that shape queer art and literature today. Poetics that derive from a history informed by acts of rebellion, such as the Stonewall Riots, the continued AIDS crisis, and the growing struggles and subsequent emerging victories for visibility of trans writers and publications. Includes new work by Erín Moure, Trish Salah, Tommy “Teebs” Pico, Tamiko Beyer, newcomer Bowen Smyth and many others. Print subscribers will also receive a copy of our supplementary publication Poetry Lives Here with this issue.
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- I Love You AC Slater / AC Slater glides into the room, / he smiles, dimples / break you in two / you are in love, he shoots / ...
- does being queer engender a queer syntax? the inconvenient problematics of the coloured fag. / thus this aesthetic of fracture and fragment. / across many ...
- Keep It Dark Who are the goddesses who fell in love / with each other? Which ones were punished / or celebrated with ...
- Marian’s Memorial, Plug-In Gallery One day this will be all of us, / everyone I know and all that’s left: / sitting on plastic chairs in a dim / ...
- Dog-and-Pony Show Let your great-great-grandma’s god’s / dogma be your seeing eye / / and your hearing ear dog (good / ...
- Lean dream I track the errant tides, irregular ebb and flow. / I open my mouth to suck / in water, I blow it back out, ...