Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty

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In this episode, Commonplace Producer V Conaty sits down with poet and scholar S. Yarberry at Rachel’s home in Washington Heights. The two discuss Yarberry’s debut collection A Boy in the City, as well as William Blake, writing from historical models, the monologue as a form, eros, the love poem, public and private space, finding a space for queerness, domesticity, cities, the Midwest, and the ambivalence in queer and trans desire.

Books and Selected Other Work by S. Yarberry

• A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2021)

Also Referenced

• Rachel Zucker

• Kathryn Davis

• Aphrodite

• Charon, boatkeeper of the underworld

• CAConrad

• William Blake

• The Odyssey

• Icarus

• John Keats

• Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, “The Uses of the Erotic”

• Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, "The Ballad of Sexual Optimism"

• Jose Esteban Munoz

• Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

• Samuel L. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

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