Hiatus, Manifesting, Request
Hi all—over the last several weeks I’ve been writing a lot on here, and now I’ll be taking a break for some time to work on essays for elsewhere, mostly related to the themes of gay/queer history/theory/literature I’ve been thinking through on Substack. Hiatus!
I’m still thinking about what this would look like, but the ultimate goal—manifesting!—out of that thinking and those projects for the coming year is to hopefully generate interest in the possibility of a new gay journal, in which gay men could write to/for/about each other in a spirit of freedom and serious play.
Request! As I mentally moodboard for the above… if you are a gay man reading this and you’ve found anything interesting, useful, provocative, etc., in what I’ve written here lately about such gays as John Ashbery, Robert Gluck, Benjamin Moser, Dan Fishback, Sam D’Allessandro, Cal Yeomans, Alex Dimitrov and Richie Hofmann, Garth Greenwell and Bruce Benderson (along with honorary gay Dave Hickey), and you have thoughts about the state of Gay Discourse today (and journal-shaped holes in it), I’d love to hear from you: b_e_smith@outlook.com