Queers Like Me
Agnes Marshall
, Jude Castillo
, Crystal Inwood
, Chantal Comeau
, Mary Therrien
, Barry Kazimer
, Marilyn Stanley
, Sarah Schwartz
, Deb Philippon
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Daniel Goldlist
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Tyra Antle
, Lynn Andrews
, Linda Leitch
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Andrea Pole
, Holly Elisabeth
, Anne Baldo
, Natasa Ilic
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Sandra Perry
, Laura Patterson
, Noelle Walsh
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Patricia Johnson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Shawna Moodie
, Dani Kat
, Deanna Radford
, Paula Adam
, Alyce Soulodre
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Allie Bilawchuk
, Janice Cournoyer
, Laurie Burns
, Kim Cappellina
, Lynn Bechtel
, Randi Ann Doll
, Ken Gilmour
, Karen Kendrick
, Prabh Toor
, Benita Hartwell
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Trish Bowering
, Joshua Lewis
, Joe Mitchell
, Andrea Gillespie
, Amanda Schempp
, Macy McCubbing
, Hoda Montazeri
, Karen Nordrum
, Sara Conway
, Ava Rahimpour
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Pearl Pirie
, Melissa Poremba
, Nada Loughead
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Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences: teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors, closeted lovers, and daydreams of confronting your childhood bully.
