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Ari Lohr

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Ari Lohr is a queer poet and English Education major at Boston University. He is a Brave New Voices semifinalist, Slamlandia finalist, Portland Poetry Slam champion, and a 2021 Best of the Net nominee. Focusing on the mystical intersections between power, sexuality, and identity, Ari’s poetry appears in the Northern Otter Press, Opia Lit, and more. He is the author of EJAY., a confessional love letter / poetry chapbook, and Gravity, his debut full-length poetry book with Gutslut Press. He is also the managing editor of the Bitter Fruit Review and the editor-in-chief of the Jupiter Review. He believes truth is malleable, professionalism is violence, and arrogance is sexy. Ari can be found at arilohr.com, or @arilohr on instagram.

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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…moreas 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. (less)

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The Theory of Celestial Influence: Man, the Universe and Cosmic Mystery

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The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

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“do you know what it sounds like to die? it sounds like a prayer. like a song. it sounds like --

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― Ari Lohr, Gravity

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“It is impossible to experience the appearance of awareness. We are that awareness to which such an appearance would occur. We have no experience of a beginning to the awareness that is seeing these words. We have no experience of its birth. We have no experience that we, awareness, are born. Likewise, in order to claim legitimately that awareness dies, something would have to be present to experience its disappearance. Have we ever experienced the disappearance of awareness? If we think the answer is, ‘Yes’, then what is it that is present and aware to experience the apparent disappearance of awareness? Whatever that is must be aware and present. It must be awareness. When we are born or when we wake in the morning, we have the experience of the appearance of objects. When we die and when we fall asleep at night, we have the experience of the disappearance of objects. However, we have no experience that we, awareness, appear, are born, disappear or die. That”
― Rupert Spira, Presence: The Intimacy of All Experience

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“do you know what it sounds like to die? it sounds like a prayer. like a song. it sounds like --

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― Ari Lohr, Gravity

tags: poetry

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