Khashayar Mohammadi

Poem

Reading Queer in the GTA (2)

Staff June 23, 2020 CAROUSEL CAROUSEL 42 CAROUSEL 42 GTA Khashayar Mohammadi poetry queer Toronto

KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI Pillow’s Kiss (excerpted from Moe’s Skin) Pillow’s kiss past midnight’s stroke and doze down the fugueof highway tunes. Up, up and away — past mall-lit windows wemigrate between, bootleg DVDs and cider house blues wherehatred blossoms in plastic-bagged opacity, past the hooka-smokinggirls lustfully eyeing lustful men in blue.Feel…

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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…