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Thank You for Being a Friend

Thank You for Being a Friend

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The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


NOTES:

Check out Toni Morrison's 1987 eulogy for James Baldwin in the New York Times.

We read from Fran Lebowitz's remembrance of her friend Toni Morrison, printed in the Paris Review.

If you haven't already, read Brenda Hillman's "Male Nipples"

Read "The Curious Friendship of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell" from The Atlantic.

Check out this exploration of the dynamics in literary friendships published in Esquire.




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