Kirby – CAROUSEL

Poem

Reading Queer in the GTA (3)

Staff June 24, 2020 CAROUSEL CAROUSEL 42 CAROUSEL 42 GTA Kirby poetry queer Toronto

KIRBY 3:52 PM It’s Wednesday(all this time thought it was Tuesday) adult peeps just off N. Sylvanialast booth on the right ajar construction worker tank jeans wide opencock juts out rigid hard raging lit by moaning straight porn breathtaking says nothing smokes transfixed on screen pretendsthey don’t see me enter…

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LGBTQA+GTA

Jade Wallace June 22, 2020 Banoo Zan CAROUSEL CAROUSEL 42 CAROUSEL 42 GTA Jade Wallace Kamila Rina Khashayar Mohammadi Kirby poetry queer Tanis Franco Toronto

In 2019, CAROUSEL interviewed five writers whose origins spanned the globe, whose ages straddled generations, whose writing practices crossed genres and genders, but who were all akin insofar as they were then at work making queer poetry in the GTA. The essay based on those interviews appeared in full in…