Love Poem to Androgyny

by Waite, Stacey

• ISBN13: 9781599480381
• ISBN10: 1599480387
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Main Street Rag

Summary

Contents: In the Womb 9 Love Poem to Androgyny 10 Kimberly 11 It has always been Frankie Martinelli 12 About Ben 13 Poem for my first Girlfriend 15 Poem for my first Girlfriend 16 If I were a man, she'd be in love with me 17 At a Rest Stop in Central Pennsylvania . . . 18 On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Boy by the Umpire in the Little League Conference Championship 19 On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for the Delivery Boy by Two Members of the Girls Youth Soccer League at the Marriot Hotel 20 On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by the Cashier in the Drive-Thru Window at a Wendy's in Madison, Wisconsin 22 On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by Security Personnel at Newark International Airport 23 On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by A Waiter While Having Breakfast with My Mother 25 On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by a Gay Man While Buying a Filter for my Tank of Black Skirt Tetra at the Robinson Town Center Petco 27 On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by a Pregnant Woman to whom I have Relinquished my Bus Seat 29 XY 30 The Villagers 32 Talk Show 33 Butch Defines Feminism Under the Following Conditions 34 Fixing my Voice 36 Letter to Brandon Teena 37

Author Biography

Stacey Waite was the winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry for her first chapbook entitled Choke. She lives with her partner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she studies Tai Chi, searches for old clay roof tiles and walks through Frick Park with her greyhound, Rohen. She has been teaching writing and gender studies courses at the University of Pittsburgh for the past four years including courses titled Queer Theory, Writing and Consciousness, Fieldwork with the Body and Sexuality and Representation. Her poems have appeared most recently in Poet Lore, Nimrod, 5AM, West Branch, Chiron Review and Pearl. She enjoys tending to the ficus tree, ridding the yard of dead pine needles and sweeping the front porch.