Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

The queens read for filth another toxic masculinist article before we play a saucy game based on a gay novel.

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Show Notes:

Heather Christle's post sparked this episode's discussion and can be found here. Christle's most recent book of poetry is Paper Crown (Wesleyan UP, August 2025)

While there isn't an out gay character in Dead Poets Society, there is some gay-coded stuff going on. Read Kaeya Merchant's fabulous essay on the topic: "Dead Poets Society is Queer; Here’s Why"

The Garth Greenwell essay on Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance which Aaron references was also published in the Yale Review. Check out Garth's website at https://www.garthgreenwell.com

At the end of the show, we quote the line "What did you think, that joy was some slight thing?" which is from Mark Doty's "Visitation"

Other poems or poets we reference are:

Garret Hongo's "What For"

e.e. cummings, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond"

David Bottoms, "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt"

A.E. Stallings, "Sea Girls"

Jorie Graham, "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body"

Emily Dickinson, Poem 591