Jen Currin
Jen Currin has published four books of poetry, including The Inquisition Yours, which won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry in 2011, and School, which was a finalist for three prizes. She has recently finished her first collection of stories.
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Jen Currin
Sitting there long enough, I got a free coffee
& the grouchy homophobic waiter ate the two leftover tacos,
watching on television figure skater couples
who looked like women, whatever that means,
who looked homosexual, whatever I mean by that,
in the country of vodka & bad pop music,
Mandelstam’s shivering, Akhmatova’s prayers,
all the athletes who bruised their shins in…