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Benjamin Garcia
Averting the Gaze mom didn’t know I was gay because she chose not to see like the maidens of Pompeii that were instead two boys we’d now call gay we found in a last embrace his head on his chest we might change our minds about who can hug who and girls might be boys …
Benjamin Garcia
I don’t believe in muses, yet I believe in setting the table for your muse. That is, creating the right conditions for creativity. For me this tends to consist of four things: (1) consuming materials, (2) writing notes down, (3) setting aside time to write, (4) connecting with my poetry communities. Consuming materials for me …
Benjamin Garcia
Mistake House: In this world of busyness and hustle culture it has become more and more difficult to make space for writing. How do you protect your writing time, and do you have any rules for yourself to keep your writing process on track? Benjamin Garcia: Any amount of writing is considerably more than no …
Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia’s first collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT, won the National Poetry Series and the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, in addition to being a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where he received the Jill Gonzalez Health …