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National Poetry Month is here! C.T. Salazar joins Lauren to celebrate some of their favorite queer poets and poetry collections!

Make It Gay! is a series that celebrates queer stories and authors in different genres. Don't forget to check out our previous episodes on YA, Fantasy, and Romance!

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This episode's cohost, C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking is now available from Acre Books.

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For the entire month of April 2024, Friendly City Books is celebrating National Poetry Moth with 15% off our entire poetry section! Stop in and stock up on your favorite poets and check out some new future-favorites too!

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Poetry

• Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems by C.T. Salazar (bookshop.org)
• Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems by Natalie Diaz (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
• Sweetbitter by Stacey Balkun (bookshop.org)
• Year of the Unicorn Kidz by Jason B. Crawford (bookshop.org)
• Taking to Water by Jennifer Conlon (bookshop.org)
• Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
• Slow Lightning: Volume 106 by Eduardo C. Corral (bookshop.org)
• Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral (bookshop.org)
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (bookshop.org)
• Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
• Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik (bookshop.org)
• Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco by K. Iver (bookshop.org)
• Scapegoat by T.K. Lee (available at Friendly City Books!)
• To Circle a Square by T.K. Lee (bookshop.org)

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Host: Lauren O'Connell
Cohost: C.T. Salazar
Music: Rear Projection by Hartle Road
Production assistance by Neon Newt Media LLC

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