
The Poem Formerly Known as the Poem Formerly Known as Stupid
“If I could, I’d be as tender with words / as with husbands & I’d hammer / out pine dining chairs into cellos”
Gordon Taylor is a queer, emerging poet who walks an ever-swaying wire of technology and poetry. A 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in Narrative, Malahat Review, Poet Lore, Arc, and more. He writes to invite people into a world they may not have seen.
“If I could, I’d be as tender with words / as with husbands & I’d hammer / out pine dining chairs into cellos”