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.