I'm such a nerd.

[hermionesviolin]

I read 1 poem+essay in a book at lunch today and then did a bunch of Internet research to get my facts so I could send the below message to 2 people:

Joy Ladin and Stephanie Burt are very different. Despite both being middle-aged Jewish trans women who came out later in life (at age 46, in fact -- Joy in 2007, just after getting tenure; Stephanie in 2017, having gotten tenure back in 2010) and are poets and scholars of poetry, and are each married to a woman.

I had gotten from the library a copy of Stephanie's edited volume Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Perks after Stonewall after Abby told me about finding it in a bookstore.

It's non-renewably due back in a couple days and I hadn't really opened it, but at lunch today I read the last poem in the volume ("So Your GF Wants to Come Out as Bi and Polyamorous to Her Very Conservative Family'") and then I started reading the commentary after it, and Stephanie casually notes that the poet (The Cyborg Jillian Weise) uses she/her and cy/cy pronouns, and this was so different from the Joy Ladin essays that Ari and I had read recently. I think my brain, knowing it was reading commentary on queer poems, had at some level been sort of expecting Joy Ladin.

Comments

[lunabee34]

The title of that poem reminds me a poem I wrote 27 years ago when I was in an undergrad poetry workshop; I was trying to think of what I could do that would piss my parents off the most and wrote a poem called "Now I'm Lesbians with a Black Girl." That would have done it.

Also, hi hi!