Poetry in Sexts & Music History in Drag
Patricia Lockwood, one of poetry’s brightest young stars, combines her funny Twitter persona with serious poetry to create surreal, text message-sized verse. She became internet famous for a poem called “Rape Joke” that managed to be both hilarious and devastating. We hear from Taylor Mac, the avant-drag performer who’s working on a decade-by-decade revue of American popular music, beginning all the way back inthe 1770s. Plus, a punk rock teen, pierced to the hilt, discovers something even more hardcore — opera.
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