Charles Flowers graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University and received an MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Indiana Review, and Puerto del Sol. Flowers is the founding editor of BLOOM, a journal for lesbian and gay writing that Edmund White has called “the most exciting new queer literary publication […]
Boys on a field— a cold clear light washing over them as they move, shifting lines & circles. I watch their legs bend, their arms curl each other’s waists, bands of […]
The east village glows with slush in early February. It’s Monday & the week seems endless at the Second Avenue Laundromat, where a girl with cropped green hair & silver nose ring sits reading Portrait of a Lady, while two waiters […]
I dial The Number, punch a code to enter the backroom, where I create a profile, with a deeper voice & the curt monosyllables of attraction: Cut, thick, top, hot, now. Nothing seems more hopeless […]
Charles Flowers, founding editor of BlOOM and Executive Director of the Lambda Literary Foundation, talks about the genesis of his poems, Football, The Way We Were, and Aubade, which form a triptych.