Category: friends
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Decatur Book Festival
Beau and I got back late yesterday afternoon from our long, lovely holiday weekend in Decatur, where I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Decatur Book Festival. My visit was sponsored by the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, a fabulous event in its own right. AQLF is having a fundraiser on Sept 10…
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Recipe
If you want a fun weekend, just put Collin and Reb and Gideon into it. (She sums it up better than me.)
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The Phenomenology of Anger
I realized, about a day after the fact, that last week represented a passage of 14 years since I first came out to another person. It happened at college. I’d been out to myself, somewhat, for a few months before, but I don’t really count that time because it was a tentative, exploratory, uncertain kind…
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Four Degrees of Separation
At the wedding reception this weekend, I was introduced to a woman from DC, who was friends with a couple of my friends. She was a DC native and had lived in Minneapolis some time back and came to know my friends who’d gotten married. “Charles, this is Jessica. Charles used to live in Minneapolis,”…
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How to Be Community
Been thinking about Steve Fellner’s post here about perspectives on gay male poetry community. There are a few things I personally think are important about being in a community, any community, and having good experiences there: 1. Be nice to other people.2. Don’t say shitty things about other people in the community.3. Help other people…
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Feeling My Age?
Over the weekend I enjoyed a lovely brunch with a poet friend here in DC (where I got to have aebleskiver–one of the few ethnic treats of my childhood!). Over the course of our meandering conversation, we talked about what it meant to feel old. “I was just thinking recently about how no matter how…
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