Written Text and Notes from 1999 Lecture on Gay Poetry at Provincetown Poetry Festival
Readings: 35 min Lecture: 21 min. After 30 Years: The Effects of Stonewall on Gay Poetry Thanks Dennis. First let me say that I have no doubt that “gay poetry” and “gay literature” are cultural and historical artifacts, labels based in our present contemporary moment. In several decades, “gay poetry” and “lesbian poetry” will be absorbed into the American cannon as part of a poetic of gender and multiculturalism, which dominated this late phase of the twentieth century. Histo