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Standing Room Only @ Cornelia St Cafe Queer Reading Series

February 15, 2010 in Reading Events by Jeffery Berg | No comments

Photo: Rachel Silveri

Photo: Rachel Silveri | Alex Dimitrov and Mark Doty

Last week in the small, dim-lit basement of Cornelia Street Café, poet Angelo Nikolopoulos hosted the second White Swallow Reading Series to a packed house of queer lit aficionados. From the titillating and hilarious to the more plaintive and sobering, readers including Wilde Boys Nikolopoulos, Alex Dimitrov, Saaed Jones, Tom Healy, Jason Schneiderman and National Book Award winner Mark Doty shared their unique perspectives in their work.

Boys Gone Wilde – A Queer Poetry Salon

October 19, 2009 in Literature by smhayhurst | 4 comments

Wilde Boys October 09
“Wilde Boys is a queer poetry salon for beautiful boys who write and appreciate beautiful poems”, as its creator Alex Dimitrov puts it. The salon brings together established and emerging queer poets in New York City.

Organized and run by Dimitrov, a 2009 Sarah Lawrence graduate who now works at the Academy of American Poets, the salon meets monthly in Manhattan and Brooklyn at the apartments of various salon members, and frequently at poet Tom Healy’s West Village apartment. The first meeting was held there this past May and began with a reading and discussion of the poems of James Merrill.

“I wanted to create a smart and sexy gathering of queer poets where aesthetic, formal, and political issues pertaining to contemporary poetry could be discussed without pretension,” says Dimitrov. “I was, of course, inspired by the original French salons of the 17th and 18th century, and I also wanted to adopt Oscar Wilde as our patron saint.”