In today’s episode of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko is joined by their first guest on the show, Mary Schwab, to discuss her experience in slam poetry and writing and performing “weird shit” as a therapeutic hobby. Delve with us into her slam “eras”, including sex with god and clones, as we discuss all things slam poetry!

Starting off Season 2 of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko reads from the Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who ventured fearlessly beyond familiar poetic subjects to tackle political injustice, social discrimination, and women’s sexuality in her poems and prose. Featured poems include “Short Song”, “Renascence”, and What thing is this that, built of salt and lime.

In today’s episode of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko revisits Richard Siken’s work, this time via his 2016 poetry collection War of the Foxes. They read and explicate four poems from the book: The Way the Light Reflects, Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede, War of the Foxes, and Three/Four Proofs.

In today’s episode of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko reads from The Heartbreaks, a chapbook published by the Trident Poetry Collective in Boston, MA. The authors featured are Brynna Boyd, Sage Futterman, Mary Schwab, and Camila Martorell Michell. And yes, the title is a pun from Nicole Kidman’s AMC ad :)

In today’s episode of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko reads from the poems The Orange, by Wendy Cope, Two-Headed Calf, by Laura Gilpin, Tomato, by Joy Sullivan, as well as some of Mars’ personal work, evoking that fresh, hopeful feeling of summertime.

In today’s episodes of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko reads and explicates their poetry final project for their Studies in Asexualities course; 3 poems revolving around ideas of compulsory heterosexuality, coming of age in a modern society, disability and its correlation with libido, among other (a)sexual mysteries of life.

In today's episode of Queer Poets Society, join Mars Tarassenko as they read and analyze a 'multitude' of poems they were assigned to read in high school, an era during which the art of poetry was... less than appreciated. Poets include Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson.

In today’s episode of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko reads from Sylvia Plath The Collected Poems.