BOYSTUFF

Philip Kenner
ISBN: 978-1-949099-20-1
23 pages


In Philip Kenner’s debut chapbook, he has crafted a series of interconnected sonnets so full of astonishment, wonder, & joy, they’ll take your breath away. Here, queerness is the norm and beauty is the expectation. "I rage against easy, and I come out clean," he writes. BOYSTUFF will leave your jaw wide & your heart full.




Sample poem from BOYSTUFF:



And fear will fail. To turn you from the door, I have to make a room worth turning towards, or maybe that’s the story that I need to write another sonnet. When I’m done with stroking out the morning, there I reach for words to stick you with, a plastic form to hold the gluey paper in a shape. I’m still a boy and so are you, and stuff falls out our mouths in rapid streams of lines from movies, shows, and clips that raised us when the internet took on its tender role as parent number three. It slipped us drugs and said that’s it’s okay as long as we “just do it in the house where I can see.”
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Philip Kenner (he/they) is an NYC-based poet and playwright from New Rochelle, NY. His poetry appears in Milk Press, poetry.onl, Cordite Poetry Review, and Colectivo Tabu, and elsewhere. His plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and around the country. He is a founding member of COPY Magazine, and he has an MFA from Northwestern University. philkenner.com.