All She Wrote Books x Stephanie Burt: SUPER GAY POEMS Launch Event
When:
Sunday, Jul 13, 2025 5:00p -
6:30p
Sunday, Jul 13, 2025 5:00p -
6:30p
Where:
All She Wrote Books
75 Washington Street
Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
Admission:
$32
Hosted by:
Categories:
Good for Groups, LGBTQ+, Meetup, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://www.allshewrotebooks.com/events-1/all-she-wrote-books-x-stephanie-burt
Join All She Wrote Books on Sunday, July 13th at 5:00pm, as we host authors Stephanie Burt and Rachel Gold! They will discuss Burt's latest book of poems, Super Gay Poems, a groundbreaking anthology that brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
"Inclusivity" isn't just a buzzword to us. We make every effort to ensure our space and events are accessible to and for everyone. If you or someone in your party needs accommodations, please email us at [email protected].
About Super Gay Poems
A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.
A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range 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.
About the Author
Stephanie Burt is the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including Super Gay Poems and Don’t Read Poetry. A past judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she served as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Raritan, and other publications. She is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University.
About the Speaker
Rachel Gold (they/she) is the author of multiple, award-winning queer & trans Young Adult novels and an English professor at Macalester College. They have a diverse writing career that includes being a reporter for a regional LGBTQ newspaper and surviving corporate marketing. Rachel’s debut novel, Being Emily, was the first Young Adult novel to tell the story of a transgender girl from her perspective. Rachel is a nonbinary lesbian, all-around nerd and avid gamer. For more information visit: www.rachelgold.com.
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