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November 18, 2021

“he’s so happy…he’s so happy being gay.”

Fans/readers of PIQ know quite well how large C.P. Cavafy figures in my life. In case you missed it, I’m joined here by fellow Cavafian, poet/friend EVAN JONES whose recent translations of Cavafy The Barbarians Arrive Today (Carcanet 2020) are dear to my heart.

November 18, 2021

Jeanette

I kissed her and forgot death.

Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
— queer lit bot ✒️ (@queerlitbot) November 18, 2021

November 12, 2021

What lovers do

“The war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”
—James Baldwin pic.twitter.com/09gyE9O8Bt
— Ian Boyden (@_IanBoyden) November 11, 2021