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Interview With Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

Willie Carver Jr.’s ‘Gay Poems for Red States’ on Good Morning America

“I found myself writing from the perspective of the kid that I used to be, trying to figure out a basic question: Am I supposed to be here?” Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. talks about the difficulties he experienced as a gay teacher in Appalachia and what inspired his debut collection, Gay Poems for Red States (University of Kentucky Press, 2023), which is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, in this interview for WTVQ-TV in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
Gay Poems for Red States
University of Kentucky Press
2023
Page One
July/August 2023
WTVQ-TV
interview

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