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Ari Lohr
as a young queer poet, i find myself fixated on both capturing the trauma my community has experienced while generating counternarratives that express the profound love, beauty, and diversity of contemporary queer culture. whether it's writing about my lover and i's legs "intertwined / like DNA strands," "a lingering breeze / a sunset / a sundown town / the heat falling from the boy's hands / a lone thread unwinding in the fabric of night," or "God becoming / flesh, boy becoming / blasphemy," the personal and political threads of my life -- and indeed the lives of each young queer individual -- weave together, co-constituting and complicating each other in tandem as we become increasingly bound in the intimate, tangled knot of our modern sociopolitical quagmire, which is only accelerated as apps like grindr come into vogue among young gay men. my debut poetry book, Gravity, attempts to both navigate and overcome the intersecting timelines of personal and political queerness, elaborating on the trauma i've experienced as a gay man as it corresponds with the whimsical, romantic, and spiritual alchemy of a community desperate to neither forget nor become stuck in the historical and contemporary oppression with which it so badly needs to reconcile.
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