The Friendly City Books Podcast

Make it Gay! - Poetry

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National Poetry Month is here! C.T. Salazar joins Lauren to celebrate some of their favorite queer poets and poetry collections!

Make It Gay! is a series that celebrates queer stories and authors in different genres. Don't forget to check out our previous episodes on YA, Fantasy, and Romance!

This episode's cohost, C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking is now available from Acre Books.

For the entire month of April 2024, Friendly City Books is celebrating National Poetry Moth with 15% off our entire poetry section! Stop in and stock up on your favorite poets and check out some new future-favorites too!

Poetry

Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems by C.T. Salazar (bookshop.org)
Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems by Natalie Diaz (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
Sweetbitter by Stacey Balkun (bookshop.org)
Year of the Unicorn Kidz by Jason B. Crawford (bookshop.org)
Taking to Water by Jennifer Conlon (bookshop.org)
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
Slow Lightning: Volume 106 by Eduardo C. Corral (bookshop.org)
Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral (bookshop.org)
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (bookshop.org)
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik (bookshop.org)
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco by K. Iver (bookshop.org)
Scapegoat by T.K. Lee (available at Friendly City Books!)
To Circle a Square by T.K. Lee (bookshop.org)

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Host: Lauren O'Connell
Cohost: C.T. Salazar
Music: Rear Projection by Hartle Road
Production assistance by Neon Newt Media LLC