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In 2024, Harvard University offered a course on Taylor Swift. It was popular, to say the least. That course was taught by a professor and literary critic named Stephanie Burt. In The New Yorker, Burt has written seriously about comics and science fiction, but she’s also considered great poets such as Seamus Heaney and Mary Oliver. Now Burt has put together an anthology, titled “Super Gay Poems.” It’s a collection of L.G.B.T.Q. poetry, whose contents begin after the Stonewall uprising, in 1969. When describing the collection, Burt tells the New Yorker Radio Hour producer Jeffrey Masters, “ There are poems where we read it and we say, ‘Wow, that’s me.’ And there are poems where we read it and we say, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that can happen; that’s not me; that’s new to me; that’s different.’ And there are poems where we read them and we just say, ‘That’s beautiful. That is elegant. That is funny. That is sexy. That is hot. That is so sad that I don’t know why I like it, but I do.’ And I like making those experiences available to readers.”

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