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Sinclair Sexsmith on “Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica”: The Autostraddle Interview. Kinky queer butch top Sinclair Sexsmith‘s new anthology, Say Please, offers a close look at lesbian BDSM.

Sinclair Sexsmith on “Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica”: The Autostraddle Interview

Contributors include Rachel Kramer Bussel, Sossity Chiricuzio, Kiki Delovely, Dusty Horn, Sassafras Lowrey, Miriam Zoila Pérez, and Xan West, along with other well-known and debut writers. In Rachel Kramer Bussel’s “A Slap in the Face,” a femme wants her girlfriend to slap her in a crowded bar. In Dilo Keith‘s “Coming of Age,” an almost-butch top delivers a birthday spanking. In D.L. You Can't Spell "Literature" without "T&A"

Discover the Meaning of Literature. Discover the Meaning of Literature. A Substance in a Cushion by Gertrude Stein. The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared.

A Substance in a Cushion by Gertrude Stein

Sugar is not a vegetable. Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men. Does this change. It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume. A cushion has that cover. A circle of fine card board and a chance to see a tassel. What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. Light blue and the same red with purple makes a change.

"Are you the new person drawn toward me?" by Walt Whitman. Are you the new person drawn toward me?

"Are you the new person drawn toward me?" by Walt Whitman

To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Spray Can Romance. By Stuart Snelson.

Spray Can Romance

His first crime of the night yet to be committed, he considered the circumstances through which he had arrived at this point. Emily Ballou. Emily Ballou is an Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter.

Emily Ballou

Her first poetry collection The Darwin Poems, a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009.[1] It was written as part of an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland.[2] Background[edit] Spalding Gray. Spalding Rockwell Gray (June 5, 1941 – ca.

Spalding Gray

January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer. He is known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s. Taylor Mali. Taylor McDowell Mali (born 28 March 1965) is an American slam poet, humorist, teacher, and voiceover artist.[1][2][3] Life[edit] Poetry[edit] Taylor Mali performing at the international school in Stockholm He appeared in Taylor Mali & Friends Live at the Bowery Poetry Club and the documentaries "SlamNation" (1997) and "Slam Planet" (2006).

Taylor Mali

Index. Features > > Poetry Is Doomed. John S. Hall. E. E. Cummings. Edward Estlin "E.

E. E. Cummings

The Poetry of the Present by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence. Introduction.

The Poetry of the Present by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

1. Renascence. Millay, Edna St. Vincent. 1917. Renascence and Other Poems. Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda (Spanish: [ˈpaβ̞lo̞ ne̞ˈɾuð̞a]; July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after the Czech poet Jan Neruda. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Neruda became known as a poet while still a teenager. He wrote in a variety of styles including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and erotically-charged love poems such as the ones in his 1924 collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. He often wrote in green ink, which was his personal symbol for desire and hope. The Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language Neruda was hospitalised with cancer at the time of the Chilean coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet.

Life and career[edit] Philip Levine (poet) Philip Levine (born January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.

Philip Levine (poet)

He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012.[1] Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit, the second of three sons and the first of identical twins of Jewish immigrant parents.

His father, Harry Levine, owned a used auto-parts business,[2] his mother, Esther Priscol (Prisckulnick) Levine, was a bookseller.[3] When Levine was five years old, his father died.[4] While growing up, he faced the anti-Semitism embodied by Father Coughlin, the pro-Hitler radio priest.[5] Levine started to work in car manufacturing plants at the age of 14.