Kyle Lopez

Sep 18, 2024 | yalereview.org | Kyle Lopez

How did this poem begin for you? An earlier, wordier version of this poem revolved around this same “punchline.” Eventually, it felt logical to pare it down to an epigram. My mother and grandmother relayed this to me as a child.

Feb 27, 2024 | lambdaliteraryreview.org | Kyle Lopez

I first met Dale Corvino during the summer of 2023 in Cherry Grove on Fire Island through my friend Bobuq Sayed (both Lambda Literary fellows). Bonds & Boundaries, published October 2023, is his first collection of short stories. This is a thoughtful, very funny, sex and sex work-forward book, and, in joint launch events, it’s been paired wonderfully with I Could Not Believe It! The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear, edited by Michael Bullock and Cesar Padilla.

Feb 27, 2024 | lambdaliteraryreview.org | Kyle Lopez

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Jan 16, 2024 | poets.org | Kyle Lopez |Kay Gabriel |John Wieners

Find and share the perfect poems. I’ve crashed a party with an infinity pool and several nude men: a Fire Island home at the back of a walkway long enough to outlast a pop song’s bridge and some chorus, flanked by phragmites on either side, tall and same-faced, so all but reed bulk hides out from the exterior. Myself included, close to everyone here has a body of one approximate build. What would it say if I stay?

Apr 19, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Kyle Lopez

April 19, 2023, 8 AM ETI’m at a Jersey Shore family party, age 16. Half-full Corona bottles gleam with fizzing honey as July sunshine laves them, my aunt’s backyard full of salsa and freestyle. Grown folks who’ve beefed since their teen years chat and try to play nice. I first meet Marco Antonio here: 50-something, distant blood, dark-skinned, gravel-throat speech, round shades, toquilla straw hat, loose digs that make him shapeless, infinite.