POETRY

Your Androgyne by Hugh Blanton

Vaporization, Iowa by Daniel Palensky

Ben Casey by Nils Nelson

Do You Want a Ride Home, Dan? by Dan Flore III

Matvezah by Matthew Feinstein

FICTION

Charlton, as in Charlton Heston by Whit Howlett

Depleted and Overwhelmed by Jaclyn Torres

The Trapper by Bradley Sides

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Kandinsky’s paintings are celebrated for their range while his partner’s, Gabriele Münter’s, are criticized for their lack of cohesiveness. Women artists are often written off for their perceived fickleness, which somehow manifests in men as flexibility. In putting this collection together, I feared that it would be too different from my other published work. I thought by now that my “writing voice” would have come in, but as it turns out, my writing is as multifaceted as myself.

I was particularly excited to put together a small collection for Drunk Monkeys because it’s a queercentric publication open to humor, and thus the perfect place for my more playful and offbeat poems. Sylvia Plath said, “everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it,” and I realize she probably wasn’t referring to the clitoris, pee kinks, and the sex lives of our great-grandparents, BUT I think about this quote a lot when I write. I don’t think any topic should be considered too crude or too intimate to write about. Giving language, humor, and a new perspective to a taboo can work to destigmatize it and start conversations.

My Bisexuality is like John Cena

Nana&Ted

Bigfoot vs. the Clitoris

Loving You in Shades of Pee