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His second collection, Lunch, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and his third book, Cocktails, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. On February 3, 2010, after the publication of Chronic in 2009, Claremont Graduate University announced that Powell had won its prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award .
In the work Finley recited 12 poems about AIDS from her own books Shock Treatment, A Different Kind of Intimacy and elsewhere. Written in Sand was performed at University at Buffalo , at Colby College , at Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania and, in October 2014, over a month-long run at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in ...
Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and Maine. She married writer Sean Harvey in 1999. Throughout her adult life she produced poetry, often about her struggles and experiences living with HIV. She died on December 30, 2005, in her apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan of the AIDS-associated infection PML.
Dlugos is widely known for the poems he wrote while hospitalized in G-9, the AIDS ward at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, and is considered a seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic. His long poem "G-9," in which Dlugos celebrates life while accepting his mortality and impending death, was published in The Paris Review only months before Dlugos died.
Tiara" is a poem that appears in Bethlehem in Broad Daylight. Published in 1991, it is the second collection of poems by the American poet, Mark Doty, who lived through the HIV/AIDS epidemic. [1] The poem serves as an elegy for Doty's friend, Peter Holla. Holla was a Drag queen, and the first person Doty knew who died of AIDS. [2]
Gil Cuadros (July 22, 1962 [1] – August 29, 1996) was an American gay poet, essayist, and ceramist known for his writing on the impact of AIDS. [ 2 ] Biography
This poem critiques the way society perceived and treated homosexual AIDS sufferers. The 1980s marked the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The Reagan administration's delayed action to fight AIDS resulted in thousands of deaths, especially among young gay men. [5]
Sneed's memoir, Funeral Diva, a poetry and prose book was published by City Lights Publishers in 2020. The book documents growing up in the midst of the AIDS crisis, and focuses specifically on the experiences of Black queer women. [18] [19] [20] The book won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. [3]