Wayne Koestenbaum

Jul 10, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Wayne Koestenbaum |Emma Stout

Last month, a diverse and expansive new exhibition called Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty opened at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the show homes in on Warhol’s lifelong exploration of beauty, particularly male beauty, which took on strange, provocative, and varied forms throughout the artist’s ouvré.

Apr 1, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Wayne Koestenbaum |Libby Watson

This piece is published as web-exclusive material for issue no. 73, “Consolation Prizes.”Green tuppence strewn across a landThen my golden cookies came to the rescueOur boutique is rad. Call me bunion. Dead woman rummaged through Ferocious stubble undoes wan  pedestrian’s equanimity. Crying girl squelches urgeBlack wire mesh around scaffolding depicts  crucified limbs—allegoryMaître d’s pants—slayers—more snug   tart-pants I spent unpoetic  hours struggling to love.

Mar 6, 2024 | yalereview.org | Wayne Koestenbaum

Two quartered radishes, consumed              while dressing              for death: diminutive               delicacies,               deviations. Caressed two words: felucca and bromeliad. Confused between intended and indented:              intended bride?               indented bride? Two weeks ago I trod a Notre Dame now burning. Eviscerating windstorm. Hugged two more words:              janissaries and solan. So long, Janus-faced blueboy.

Nov 3, 2023 | chicagoreview.org | Wayne Koestenbaum

what did flowers do before there were no more flowers did flowers explode did flowers preen what have flowers done and what will flowers do when flowers return at your behest watch the flowers begging for an opportunity to avoid the stigma of being a messy flower the lines are not yet flowers the lines are striving to become flowers they’re growing toward a state they’ve speculated about don’t deny flowers their hour of fun we’re walking to the sex pad slowly along the road along the train...

Sep 3, 2023 | semiotexte.com | Wayne Koestenbaum

By Wayne KoestenbaumThis book of thirty-six poetic bulletins by the humiliation-advice-giver Wayne Koestenbaum will teach you how to cruise, how to dream, how to decode a crowded consciousness, how to find nuggets of satisfaction in unaccustomed corners, and how to sew a language glove roomy enough to contain materials gathered while meandering. Koestenbaum wrote many of these poems while walking around New York City. He’d jot down phrases in a notebook or dictate them into his phone.